The fucking fifth search result for "ukraine counterracks." This is the NYT article they, apparently, meant to link to, from FIVE HOURS AGO.
Ukrainian Forces Strike Back at Russia, as Biden Sends More Firepower
ODESSA, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces carried out counter-offensives against Russian positions on Wednesday, seeking to inflict what one official called “maximum losses"...
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After falling back under a relentless pounding over the war’s first weeks, Ukrainian troops tried to gain some momentum with counterattacks on Russian positions outside of Kyiv and in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson, in Ukraine’s south, a senior Ukrainian military official said.
Rather than seek to regain lost territory, Ukrainian forces tried to cause as much destruction and death as possible, attacking Russian troops and equipment with tanks, fighter jets and artillery, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military information.
I LUV death and destruction when it comes to Russians.
“In the task of inflicting maximum losses, we’ve done excellently,” the official said.
American intelligence officials said their conservative estimate of Russian troop deaths was at least 7,000, a staggering number that carries implications for both combat effectiveness and morale.
The 7,000 Club! Oh yeah, baby! Cargo! 200!
Cargo 200!
Cargo 200!
๐ถ Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be Russian soldiers๐ถ
But here is the real MEAT of the article and it's not very meaty:
But little appeared to have changed on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine, about to enter its fourth week, has become a grinding daily slog with little evidence of significant gains for either side.
Details of the Ukrainian offensive could not be fully established independently, though several top Ukrainian officials, including key aides to Mr. Zelensky, confirmed that the counterattacks were underway.
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...neither side can be said to have made much progress militarily.
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In the absence of significant military gains, Russian forces on Wednesday continued a campaign of terror against Ukrainian civilians.
At least 10 people were killed when a Russian strike hit a bread line in Chernihiv...Photos released by the prosecutor’s office showed several bodies scattered around a dirt yard.
The reporters are getting shellshocked; they're disgusted by what they are seeing.
Using heavy artillery, cruise missiles and fighter jets, Russian forces have systematically targeted civilian areas with no military presence, striking apartment buildings, schools and hospitals in cities and villages all over a broad front in the north, east and south of Ukraine. The attacks may have killed thousands of civilians, though reaching a precise count of the dead has been impossible.
...Mariupol alone...has been turned into a hellscape of burning and
decimated buildings, local authorities say at least 2,400 have been
killed, and probably far more.
