Ukraine Launches 'Full Scale Offensive' in Zaporizhzhia

Kyiv's forces have started their long-awaited counteroffensive to recapture occupied territory, according to Russian sources on social and state media.

Andrey Rudenko, a correspondent for Russian state television channel Rossiya 24, said that Ukraine had launched a tank offensive in the direction of Zaporozhzhia that was repelled by Russian troops. He added that Ukraine had "many seriously wounded troops lying on the battlefield."

Vladimir Rogov, an official in the Russia-backed administration of the partly occupied oblast, told the Solovyov Live programme: "In my opinion, there has been an attempt at...