NYT: Ukrainian Troops Will Move Like Rockets

After breaking through the first and second lines of defense of the Russian Federation, a direct path to the sea opens.

The UAF counteroffensive continues, and in August, Western media repeatedly visited Ukrainian marines who are fighting against the Russians on their way to the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region.

“After the first and the second lines there will be the straight way toward the sea, no more fortifications,” said Maksym, another veteran marine who fought in Urozhaine. “We will move like rockets,” the The New York Times writes.

The marines are fighting on a line that runs south along the T0158, a rural road that winds its way through the Mokri Yali River Valley, where Ukrainians have retaken a series of villages since launching their counteroffensive in June.