Ukrainian troops succeed in Zaporizhzhia region - General Staff

The Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff reported this. 

In this direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also delivering artillery fire on identified Russian targets and conducting counter-battery operations.

In addition, the Defense Forces continue to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction south of the city of Bakhmut. There, Ukrainian troops are also consolidating their positions.

The General Staff noted that the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensives in the areas of Avdiivka and Marinka in the Donetsk region. There, the enemy suffers significant losses in personnel, weapons and equipment, moves units and troops, and actively uses reserves.

Also, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to restrain the offensive of Russian troops at the Kupyansk, Lyman and Bakhmut directions, where the occupiers are unsuccessfully trying to advance near Klishchiyivka, Donetsk region. Heavy fighting continues.

What is known about the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive in the direction of Zaporizhzhia region

On August 21, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were successful near Robotyne and south of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region.

On August 22, the General Staff stated that the Ukrainian military had succeeded in the direction of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region, and were consolidating the lines they had reached. At the same time, the Russian army is moving its troops and using reserves.

On Tuesday, August 22, Ukrainian defenders of the 47th Detached Mechanized Brigade entered the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region, and organized the evacuation of civilians. Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Viktor Burlyk reported that the Ukrainian army had entered Robotyne, but that Russian units were still on the outskirts.

On Wednesday, August 23, soldiers with the 47th Detached Mechanized Brigade raised the Ukrainian flag signed by Zaluzhnyi in the village of Robotyne in the Melitopol sector.

Later, it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued counteroffensive operations near Robotyne in western Zaporizhzhia region on August 25 and advanced as Russian "military commanders" expressed concern about the lack of reinforcements and rotation in the area.

Later, the Institute for the Study of War noted that the Defense Forces made further tactically significant gains in the western part of Zaporizhzhia region, and are likely to advance through a complex series of Russian occupiers' defensive positions.

On August 27, the spokesperson for the Tavria Defense Forces press center, Oleksandr Shtupun, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were advancing south of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region to the village of Novoprokopivka. In the south, the invading Russian forces are suffering losses, so they are forced to redeploy troops from other parts of the front.

Shortly after, on August 28, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar announced that the Ukrainian military had officially liberated the village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region. Also, over the past week, the Defense Forces de-occupied 1 square kilometer in the Bakhmut sector.