![]() “We need to pivot to the offensive,” he said. “Ukraine needs a victory now,” Colonel Kostenko said. Ukraine was seen as needing to demonstrate it can push back Russian forces, lest support in Europe for arming Kyiv wane as countries face inflation and high energy prices, and before autumn rains slow any offensive in muddy fields. Videos posted on Ukraine social media show that Ukraine has advanced as much as 30 miles in this area, capturing several villages in a dramatic, surprise thrust into an exposed flank it adds to an overall sense of momentum after months of disheartening, bloody, grinding defensive warfare. He blew the bridges up, creating barriers to a Russian attack on the city, which the Ukrainians still hold.Ī photograph of soldiers hoisting the Ukrainian flag on the roof of a hospital in the village of Vysokopillia, to the north of the battle of the pontoon bridges, appeared in Ukrainian media and was later confirmed as authentic by an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky. In the first, chaotic days of the war, Colonel Kostenko obtained about 200 pounds of high explosives from the military that he said he drove in a minivan to several bridges on the path of the Russian advance toward the city of Mykolaiv. ![]() No one strike on a bridge will decide the fate of Ukraine’s offensive - which relies both on building pontoon bridges and preventing the Russians from doing so. ![]()
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