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5:20 PM 10/22/2022 Mapping Ukraine’s counteroffensive posted at 21:15:32 UTC   via   aljazeera.com “Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as scary and deadly for us as your ‘friendship and brotherhood’.” These were the words of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Russia six days after September 6, when Ukraine began its surprising counteroffensive in Kharkiv. Since the pushback began, Ukraine has recaptured strategically important hubs on the eastern and southern axes. On September 12, Zelenskyy  announced  that Ukraine had regained about 6,000 square kilometres (2,320 square miles) of territory - a sliver of the country's landmass of more than 600,000sq km (232,000sq miles), of which less than a fifth is currently under Russian occupation. This has pushed the front lines further to the east and, in turn, reversed months of Russian territorial gains within a matter of weeks. [Al Jazeera] For the first time since the invasion began, pro-Kremlin public figures, media ...

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