⚔️ Counterattack

Ukrainian forces launch lightning counter-offensive around Kharkiv in early September, recapturing hundreds of towns and villages

September 1, 2022 Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast

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Kyiv Post Kyiv Independent Ukrainska Pravda UNIAN

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Entities

Ukraine (organization) Ukrainian Armed Forces (organization) Oleksandr Syrskyi (person) Danylo "Viking" (person) 5th Slobozhanshchyna Brigade (military_unit) Russia (organization) Kharkiv Combined Heat and Power Plant No. 5 (location) Armed Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) Russian military (military_unit) Kharkiv Oblast (location) Kherson Oblast (location) Kharkiv region (location) Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Russian Armed Forces (military_unit) Russian troops (military_unit) White Wolf special unit (military_unit)

Source Reports

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

They follow up in early September with a lightning counter-offensive around Kharkiv, winning back hundreds of towns and villages

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian forces liberated 12,000 square kilometers in the Kharkiv counteroffensive

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

He also took part in the Kharkiv counteroffensive; his company liberated the village of Udy. Russian forces fled the village and Viking's company suffered no losses.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

AFU pushed Russian forces back in Kharkiv Oblast in 2022

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

AFU pushed Russian forces back in Kherson Oblast in 2022

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