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The Armed Forces of Ukraine are continuing to counterattack on the Melitopol front in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, but the situation remains difficult due to additional Russian concrete fortifications and dense minefields.

A Ukrainian soldier signals to fire, then swiftly runs for cover. Here, along a small section of the 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) front line, Moscow’s army is staging a ferocious push designed to pin down Ukrainian forces, distract them from their grinding counteroffensive and minimize the number of troops Kyiv is able to send to more important battles in the south. The Kremlin tactic threatens to further slow the pace of the counteroffensive that was launched almost three months ago.

Moscow’s army is staging a ferocious push in northeast Ukraine designed to distract Ukrainian forces from their counteroffensive.

Working together with a pair of snipers, Ukrainian troops managed to capture 19 Russian soldiers in Luhansk Oblast, as seen in a video Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces posted on Telegram on Sept. 1.

The Russian Federation risks dividing its own forces by pouring resources into the area around Kupiansk as long as fighting continues on the Orikhiv front, the UK Ministry of Defence believes. Source: UK Defence Intelligence review on 2 September, as reported by European Pravda Details: The MoD notes that Ukrainian troops are continuing offensive operations on the Orikhiv front in southern Ukraine, with their units entering the first line of Russian defence.

Ukraine’s Security Service says it has identified a Russian commander who is accused of giving orders to shoot civilians.

Russian forces shelled Kherson overnight on Sept. 2, injuring two residents, the Kherson Oblast Military Administration reported.

According to multiple regional defense officials, explosions and air raid sirens sounded in Krivyi Rih on Sept. 2. Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city's defense council, said, "Air defense worked successfully. Target hit."

The Russian troops have killed at least two residents of Donetsk and Kherson oblasts over the past 24 hours. Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration; Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration Details: The deceased in Donetsk Oblast was killed in the village of Myrne.

Fighting throughout Ukraine is grueling, even for hardened veterans. Ihor, a former lawyer, recalls that day at the start of August when the Russians attacked the cratered ruins of Novoselivka in Kharkiv Oblast, which his 1st company was defending. The Russian troops scouted out the position with their seemingly limitless drones.