{"id":1364323,"date":"2026-03-02T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/situation-stabilized-defense-forces-conduct-counterattacks-in-the-south\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:00:29","slug":"situation-stabilized-defense-forces-conduct-counterattacks-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/situation-stabilized-defense-forces-conduct-counterattacks-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation stabilized: Defense Forces conduct counterattacks in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ukrainian Defense Forces are effectively conducting search and strike and counterstrike operations, as well as stabilizing the situation on the southern sections of the front.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was announced during a telethon by National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, in recent months the enemy has been counting on \u201csudden advances\u201d in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipil directions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the pace of fighting remains high. This is particularly affected by the terrain, which is different from the industrial zone of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Russians tried to create the conditions for expanding the \u201cgray zone\u201d and conducting offensive operations. However, despite the enemy\u2019s attempts, the Defense Forces managed to stabilize the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The number of infantry groups involved in the assaults is quite large. However, in recent weeks, there have been no large mechanized assaults here,&#8221; Muzychuk noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, the enemy actively uses many drones of various types, taking advantage of the lack of terrain differences and sparse development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dshv-prorvaly-liniiu-oborony-okupantiv-na-oleksandrivskomu-napriamku-shcho-vidomo-pro-operatyvnu-sytuatsiiu\/\">the fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces broke through the defense line of the Russian occupiers in the Oleksandrivka direction<\/a> . Thanks to this, the Ukrainian troops thwarted the enemy&#8217;s plans for a further offensive and opened a bridgehead for tactical advancement.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, since the end of January 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/za-misiats-syly-oborony-povernuly-pid-kontrol-400-kvadratnykh-kilometriv-syrskyy\/\">Ukrainian units have regained control of 400 sq. km of territory<\/a> and eight settlements in the South.<\/p>\n<p> As is known, taking advantage of favorable conditions, after blocking Starlink terminals and the Telegram messenger for Russians, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/spryiatlyvi-umovy-pislia-blokuvannia-starlink-zsu-provodiat-kontrataky-poblyzu-huliaypolia\/\">the Ukrainian military began to conduct counterattacks<\/a> on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/syly-oborony-vidkynuly-rosiian-na-dnipropetrovshchyni-iak-zminylasia-liniia-frontu\/\">the Defense Forces managed to push back the Russians<\/a> near the settlements of Ternove, Vyshneve, and Verbove in the Oleksandrivka direction.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian Defense Forces are effectively conducting search and strike and counterstrike operations, as well as stabilizing the situation on the southern sections of the front. This was announced during a telethon by National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk. According to him, in recent months the enemy has been counting on \u201csudden advances\u201d in the Oleksandrivka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1338314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,77303],"class_list":["post-1364323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}