Ukrainian troops are carrying out a long-awaited counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region, military officials said. “Today we launched offensive actions in several directions, including in the Kherson region,” the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Command, Natalia Humeniuk, said on Monday. She declined to provide further details on the new offensive, but said recent Ukrainian attacks on logistics routes in southern Russia had “undoubtedly weakened the enemy”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy added in a speech on Monday evening: “If they want to survive, it’s time for the Russian army to flee. The occupiers should know this: we will push them out at the border. At our border, whose line has not changed.”