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The Ukrainian army continues the counteroffensive.

After successes in Kharkiv Oblast on the Eastern Front, now to the south in Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian forces have regained control of 500 square kilometers.

In the last 24 hours, Ukrainian forces also retook 20 settlements.

The city of Kharkiv is without electricity and water after Russian shelling today, BNR reported.

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Over the past two weeks, 1,800 Russian servicemen have died in the fighting on the southern front, the spokeswoman for the southern Ukrainian command, Natalia Gumenyuk, said:

"We have freed up 500 square kilometers and we can announce that the villages of Kherson region - Visokopiliya, Novovoznesensk, Bilogirka, Sohiy Stavok and Myrolyuvka are now completely under the Ukrainian flag."

Kyiv claims it has regained 500 square kilometers of territory seized by Russian forces in southern Ukraine

The counter-offensive continues in the Kharkiv region and Russian forces are quickly abandoning their positions, Governor Oleg Sinegubov reported in Telegram.

While on the run, Russian servicemen are looting the population en masse, Ukrainian intelligence claims.

They take generators, telephones, computers from cars and take inventory from schools.

In the city of Kharkiv, Russian forces once again targeted the energy infrastructure.

The mayor of the city, Igor Terehfov, announced that work is underway to restore electricity and water supply.

Yesterday, Russian cruise missiles struck the energy infrastructure and left huge parts of Eastern and Central Ukraine without power, Volodymyr Zelensky reported.

According to him, the "eclipse" is complete in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions and partially - in Sumy, Zaporozhye and Dnipropetrovsk.

Ukrainian soldiers clear the territories over which Kyiv has regained control.

"But all their explosives are still here. They left all their ammunition. There's plenty - for tanks, for artillery."

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov stated in an interview with the French newspaper "Mond" that the war has entered a third phase - the first is to contain the Russians, the second is to establish a balance on the front and test the endurance of the Russian army, and the third phase is the disruption of the enemy's logistics lines and the destruction of with fuel and ammunition.

According to the minister, the goal is the liberation of all occupied territories, "including Crimea, Luhansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast, or a return to the borders of '91. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he will not negotiate with Russia before it withdraws his troops from his country.

Zelensky addressed Russia directly with a publication in "Telegram", which reads:

"Do you still believe that we are one people, that we can be frightened, that you can break us. You really do not understand anything - who we are, what we are. Read my lips - No gas or without you - WITHOUT YOU! No light or without you - WITHOUT YOU! "

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