{"id":1336771,"date":"2026-03-31T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1336771"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:30:17","slug":"defense-forces-regain-control-of-470-km-in-south-says-syrskyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/defense-forces-regain-control-of-470-km-in-south-says-syrskyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian forces liberate 480 sq km on Oleksandrivka axis \u2013 CinC Syrskyi"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>Ukrainian forces have already liberated 480 square kilometers of territory on the Oleksandrivka axis, according to Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\">UATV English<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n   <p>He said this in an <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/we-re-creating-conditions-for-a-large-scale-offensive-syrskyi-in-interview-reveals-afu-plans-for-2026\/\">interview <\/a>with ICTV.<\/p>\n   <p>&#8220;Success lies precisely in the liberation of territory. As of today, this amounts to 480 square kilometers. This exceeds the results we achieved during the Dobropillia counteroffensive operation. If you recall, during that operation we liberated more than 430 square kilometers,&#8221; Syrskyi said.<\/p>\n   <p>He added that since March 1, Russian forces had planned to launch a large-scale offensive across all 13 key axes. However, prior to that, the enemy was forced to adjust its plans and redeploy part of its forces and assets from the Pokrovsk and Ocheretyne axes to the Oleksandrivka axis.<\/p>\n   <p>Since the beginning of the day, Russian troops have carried out 46 attacks on Ukrainian defensive positions, with the heaviest fighting recorded on the Pokrovsk axis.<\/p>\n    <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aPDZy1qGBCM&amp;t=17s\n<\/div><\/figure>\n   <p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/we-re-creating-conditions-for-a-large-scale-offensive-syrskyi-in-interview-reveals-afu-plans-for-2026\/\">\u201cWe\u2019re creating conditions for a large-scale offensive\u201d \u2014 Syrskyi in interview reveals AFU plans for 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian forces have already liberated 480 square kilometers of territory on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1251114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,53,55,50],"tags":[76,78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1336771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-russia-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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