"In the Tavria sector, there has been an advance by the defence forces," General Oleksander Tarnavskyi said in a post on Telegram, using the military's name for the southern front.
Tarnavskyi, head of the southern group of forces, said troops had conducted 1,198 assignments in the past 24 hours, with Russian forces sustaining losses of 261 men and a further 10 being taken prisoner.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, in its evening report, said offensive operations were proceeding in the east and south, with little elaboration.
It reported Russian air strikes in southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, the focus of the drive south to the Sea of Azov.
Military analysts have spoken in the past week of Ukrainian forces consolidating positions around the village of Verbove on their southward drive.
Persons:
Oleksander Tarnavskyi, Ron Popeski, Gareth Jones
Organizations:
Russian, General Staff, Ukrainian, Military, Thomson
Locations:
Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia, Azov, Donetsk, Kyiv, Maryinka, Verbove, Bakhmut