The Ukrainian army is continuing its counter-offensive in the east, claiming on Monday to have recaptured 20 settlements from Russian forces in just 24 hours. For Tetyana Ogarkova of the Ukraine Crisis Media Center NGO, the advance does not constitute a military turning point but has reinforced Ukrainian hopes of an eventual victory over Moscow.
The Ukrainian army has launched a lightening counter-offensive that caught Russia's defences off guard. Ukrainian forces have been accumulating military successes in the east of the country since September 7, a reconquest that now extends from Vovchansk in the northeast of the Kharkiv region (close to the Russian border) to the strategic town of Izium some 150km to the south.
