Wagner founder and financier Yevgeny Prigozhin has been spotted in St. Petersburg meeting with an African dignitary on the sidelines of the Russia Africa summit, according to accounts associated with the mercenary group
has committed more forces to the southeast of the country, a sign that Kyiv has identified potential weaknesses in Russian defensive lines, two US officials told CNN.
The thrust appears to have brought some results. The counteroffensive has broken through some elements of Russian defensive lines in the southeast, the US official said, and the reserve units have come in to capitalize on the opportunity. “The second wave of the [Ukrainian] counteroffensive has begun” on the Zaporizhzhia front, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Russian-installed military-civilian administration in the region. Ukrainian troops had managed to break in “as a result of several waves of attack with more than 100 units of armored vehicles,” Rogov added, saying heavy fighting was ongoing along the southern front.
A Ukrainian serviceman inspects a destroyed Russian tank in the recently liberated village of Novodarivka in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on July 21. Reuters
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