The military said it had reclaimed the village of Storozhove early Monday, suggesting it had crossed the Mokri Yaly River from its positions in the village of Blahodatne. The combat with tanks, armored vehicles, howitzers, drones and infantry is happening on farmland near the small river that loops around the villages now changing hands in the fighting. Ukraine did not dispute those claims of losses last week, even as it gave signals that the long-awaited push was underway. It also appeared that flooding after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine had done little to slow Ukraine’s advance. The Ukrainian military said on Monday that Russia had also blown up a dam on the Mokri Yaly River to thwart Ukrainian crossings.

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Persons: Tyler Hicks Organizations: 28th Mechanized Brigade, ., The New York Times, Ukrainian Volunteer Forces, Engineers Locations: Bakhmut, Ukraine, Storozhove, Blahodatne, Russia, United States, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia