- Title: Russian vehicles abandoned outside liberated Ukrainian town
- Date: 13th September 2022
- Summary: NEAR BALAKLIIA, UKRAINE (SEPTEMBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) UKRAINIAN SERVICEMAN WAVING HAND FROM ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIER DESTROYED MILITARY VEHICLE FILMED FROM MOVING CAR SEVERELY DAMAGED RAILROAD POST FILMED FROM MOVING CAR DAMAGED EXCAVATOR WITH “Z†MARKING FILMED FROM MOVING CAR DAMAGED VEHICLE WITH “Z†MARKING FILMED FROM MOVING CAR DESTROYED CAR DAMAGED VEHICLE WITH “Z†MARKING FILMED FROM MOVING CAR CARS MOVING NEAR DAMAGED BRIDGE FILMED FROM MOVING CAR DAMAGED VEHICLE WITH “Z†MARKING FILMED FROM MOVING CAR VERBIVKA, UKRAINE (SEPTEMBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) PEOPLE WALKING IN STREET VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUILDING BALAKLIIA, UKRAINE (SEPTEMBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) STATUE WITH UKRAINIAN FLAGS PEOPLE GATHERING ON STREET DAMAGED ROOF DAMAGED BUILDING
- Embargoed: 27th September 2022 16:33
- Keywords: Balakliia Kharkiv counter-offensive Kharkiv region Russian invasion War in Ukraine
- Location: NEAR BALAKLIIA, VERBIVKA AND BALAKLIIA, UKRAINE
- City: NEAR BALAKLIIA, VERBIVKA AND BALAKLIIA, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001505313092022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Ukraine's lightning counter-offensive has recaptured 3,800 square kilometers (1,467 square miles) of territory in its northeastern Kharkiv region since Sept. 6, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Tuesday (September 13).
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said overnight that in total Ukraine had "liberated more than 6,000 sq. km (2,400 sq. miles) of the territory of Ukraine in the south and in the east" since Sept. 1.
This includes the figure mentioned by Malyar for the past week.
Ukraine's counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region has stunned Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. News of battlefield defeats provoked unusual rumblings of dissent on Russian state television channels.
Speaking on television after Malyar, interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said police were in the process of exhuming two bodies of civilians who he said had been executed by Russian troops days before their withdrawal.
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