Ukraine's grinding counteroffensive pivots to 'drone attacks on Russian territory'
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Ukraine has claimed that its forces had pushed deeper into Russian defensive lines near the village of Robotyne, a day after claiming control over the village on the southern front. Kyiv launched a grinding counteroffensive in June after stockpiling Western-supplied weapons and building up assault battalions, but progress has been slow. Military spokesman Andriy Kovalyov said Ukrainian forces were edging further in the Zaporizhzhia region, which Moscow claims is part of Russia. For more on Ukraine's summer counteroffensive and the latest internal turmoil in Russia, FRANCE 24's Tom Burges Watson is joined by Dr. Alexandra Filippenko, Political Analyst and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Science.