# Inside Ukraine’s offensive pushing Russia back

https://mins.news/en/video/104097

- BBC News, 2026-10-17 05:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANXLDxMh8c

> Commanders in an underground bunker in eastern Ukraine watch a live battlefield feed as a Ukrainian drone catches a Russian surveillance drone in a net and pulls it down. Kyiv says Operation Vivaldi, a counter-offensive in the eastern Donbas, has recaptured 277 sq km in recent months.

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