{"id":2015463,"date":"2023-08-29T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robotyne-has-been-liberated-ukraine-says-its-captured-crucial-village-in-push-to-split-russian-forces\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:12:47","slug":"robotyne-has-been-liberated-ukraine-says-its-captured-crucial-village-in-push-to-split-russian-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robotyne-has-been-liberated-ukraine-says-its-captured-crucial-village-in-push-to-split-russian-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine claims victory, captures key village in effort to divide Russian forces."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frobotyne-has-been-liberated-ukraine-says-its-captured-crucial-village-in-push-to-split-russian-forces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Ukraine \u200cLiberates Southeastern\u2063 Settlement \u200cin Counteroffensive Against Russian Forces<\/h2>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span> \u200c announced on \u2062Monday that its troops had successfully liberated \u2064the southeastern settlement of Robotyne \u2064and\u200c were now pushing \u200bfurther south in their ongoing counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian military proudly raised the national\u200c flag \u200bin the strategic village last week, \u2064as shown in a video released \u2064by the\u2063 forces. Following this, they conducted mopping-up operations until confirming \u200cfull control on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Robotyne\u200c has been liberated,&#8221; \u200cDeputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar declared.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Located six miles south of the frontline town of Orikhiv\u200c in\u2062 the Zaporizhzhia region, \u2064Robotyne sits \u2062on an \u200bimportant road leading to Tokmak, a road and rail hub currently under Russian occupation.<\/p>\n<p>The capture \u2064of Tokmak would be a \u200bsignificant\u2063 milestone\u2063 for Ukrainian troops as\u200d they advance towards the Sea \u200cof Azov. This\u2064 military drive\u2064 aims\u200d to \u2064divide Russian forces following Moscow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-major-things-biden-failed-to-address-in-his-speech-to-congress\/\" title=\"6 Major Things Biden Failed To Address In His Speech To Congress\">full-scale invasion<\/a> in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While Ukraine celebrates its progress, Russia has\u200d not confirmed the\u2063 Ukrainian advance. In a statement, Russia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-claims-russian-occupiers-taken-prisoner\/\" title=\"Ukraine Claims Russian 'Occupiers' Taken Prisoner\">defense ministry claimed<\/a> \u200dthat Moscow&#8217;s troops had repelled attacks near \u2063Robotyne \u200dand Verbove.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200bhis nightly \u2063video address, President \u2062Volodymyr Zelenskiy\u200c discussed different sectors \u2062of the front but made \u2062no mention\u2064 of Robotyne.\u200d He did, \u200dhowever, state that Ukrainian forces were preparing responses to Russian plans in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span> believes that its fighters have\u200c successfully breached the most challenging line of Russian defenses in the\u200d south. \u2064A\u2064 commander who led troops into\u200c Robotyne last week shared this optimism with Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Defense \u200bMinister Oleksii Reznikov dismissed any suggestion of differences with Washington\u200d over\u200b <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>&#8216;s military strategy, stating that they were &#8220;mistaken\u200b and invented.&#8221; He emphasized that Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zalunzhniy was regularly meeting with senior officials from\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robotyne-has-been-liberated-ukraine-says-its-captured-crucial-village-in-push-to-split-russian-forces\/\" title=\"Ukraine claims victory, captures key village in effort to divide Russian forces.\">allied countries supplying weaponry<\/a> to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports have highlighted a recent meeting between senior NATO military chiefs and <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>&#8216;s top general to \u200cdiscuss resetting <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>&#8216;s military strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The New York \u2064Times quoted U.S. and other Western officials \u2063who claimed that the offensive had\u200b made limited progress due\u200d to <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>&#8216;s troop \u200cplacement.<\/p>\n<h3>Fortifying Positions<\/h3>\n<p>A military\u2063 spokesman confirmed that Kyiv&#8217;s \u2064forces were continuing to fortify their positions in Robotyne.\u2064 Stabilization measures, demining, and preparations\u200c for further\u200d actions were\u200c underway.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Defense Minister Maliar revealed that\u2064 Ukrainian \u200dtroops, who initiated \u200dtheir counteroffensive in early June, \u200dwere now moving \u200csoutheast of Robotyne and south of nearby Mala \u200cTokmachka.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the ongoing battles in \u2063eastern \u2064 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Ukraine<\/span>, Ukrainian \u200bforces have encountered extensive \u200bRussian\u200d minefields and trenches, slowing their progress.<\/p>\n<p>Maliar described the situation in\u2062 the\u2064 east as &#8220;very hot&#8221; in the past\u2062 week, \u2062with\u2062 Russian troops gathering new\u200d forces \u2063and regrouping. Moscow aims to deploy \u2064its best troops in \u200bthis\u2062 region.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces have continued their advance south of Bakhmut, the\u2063 shattered eastern city captured by Moscow&#8217;s troops\u200c in May after\u2064 months of\u200b fierce fighting.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by\u2063 Tom \u2063Balmforth, Pavel Polityuk, Writing\u200d by Anna Pruchnicka, editing \u2064by Timothy \u2064Heritage, Alex Richardson,\u200d Ron \u200bPopeski, and Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine announced the liberation of Robotyne, a southeastern settlement, and continues to advance against Russian forces. The military proudly raised the national flag in the strategic village, as shown in a video. Determined to push further south, Ukraine&#8217;s troops are engaged in a two-month-long counteroffensive against the occupying forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2015464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}