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Monday, August 29, 2022
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 29, 2022
Ukraine launches counteroffensive to retake Russian-occupied Kherson
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Illustrative: a Ukrainian artillery unit fires with a BM-27 Uragan, a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher, at a position near a frontline in Donetsk region on August 27, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP)
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces have begun a counterattack to retake the southern city of Kherson currently occupied by Russian troops, a local government official says today.
“Today there was a powerful artillery attack on enemy positions in… the entire territory of the occupied Kherson region,” Deputy of Kherson Regional Council Sergey Khlan tells Ukraine’s Pryamyi TV channel.
“This is the announcement of what we have been waiting for since the spring — it is the beginning of the de-occupation of Kherson region.”
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