Yesterday, the Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had liberated four settlements north and east of Kharkiv: Verkhnyaya Roganka, Russian Lozovaya, Slobodskoye and Prelesnoye.

The Washington Institute for the Study of War writes that this is an example of a series of successful Ukrainian counterattacks from Kharkov in recent days..

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In addition, successful counterattacks from Kharkiv could force Russia to redirect part of the troops allocated for the main direction of its offensive in the Donbass - from Izyum to the southeast..

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