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Wondering whether the units were from the 31st, or could have been, I reached out to sources in Ukraine. Russia claimed to have destroyed a number of vehicles, and that the remainder had been driven back. It showed Ukrainian armored vehicles driving across a field targeted by what appeared to be artillery and mines. That early video of the fighting that showed the battlefield - and potentially attacks on the 31st - was shared on June 5 via Telegram by Russians, and subsequently shared on Twitter.

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Ukraine's MoD has issued cryptic and contradictory messages on social media, with some saying that the counteroffensive is happening, others that it began a week or more earlier, and others still that it has yet to begin in earnest. But that depends on how effective the brigades are in taking and holding territory. Hopes are high that the military can liberate more territory. Long awaited and hoped-for, a major operation by Ukraine's Ministry of Defence, involving at least a dozen units and tens of thousands of soldiers, is currently unfolding in the country's north, east and southeast. Most recently, Ukraine pulled back from the city of Bakhmut, a strategically inconsequential but symbolically significant battle in which tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians lost their lives. The initiative has swung back and forth between Ukraine and Russia, with Russia seizing large swaths of territory at the outset, and Ukraine returning a good portion of the land to its control over the course of the summer and autumn of 2022. 24, 2022, Ukraine has been locked in a bitter struggle with Russia's military ever since. Placed on the back foot by Russia's invasion on Feb.

About a dozen appeared to be in their late 50s.Īs a unit, the 31st was not prepared to fight when we started training. When they arrived in the training area where I was living with and training elements of another Ukrainian unit at the end of April, the soldiers of the 31st had already received individual training with weapons and equipment. The soldiers were to be among the first on the attack in its sector. My portion was a company that was itself part of a reconnaissance battalion.

Its purpose was to take part in Ukraine's counteroffensive. The brigade, fitted out with a variety of U.S.-supplied equipment including MaxxPro mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicles, or MRAPs, was created this year.

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