How to Use counteroffensive in a Sentence

counteroffensive

noun

• They mounted a counteroffensive against the enemy.
• Ahead of the Kharkiv counteroffensive, the order was to watch and save up targets.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Right now, Ukrainian troops are in the early stages of a counteroffensive.
  — ABC News, 11 July 2023
• But a counteroffensive by the groups could bolster them.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
• In the south, Ukrainian forces are engaged in a fierce counteroffensive in the Kherson region, which Russia seized in the first weeks of the war.
  — Michael Schwirtz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• Ukraine claimed bold strikes on Russians in the south in a sign of a possible counteroffensive.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Kyiv’s ground forces had run out of steam in their southern counteroffensive.
  — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2024
• What is the state of Ukraine's southern counteroffensive?
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 2 Aug. 2022
• The Ukrainians went on the counteroffensive, but in a limited way.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
• The Americans were deeply involved in helping Ukraine plan for a counteroffensive in the south.
  — Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• My mid-May, a Ukrainian counteroffensive had pushed Russian troops back from the northern city of Kharkiv.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 16 June 2022
• The Finns, when faced with the choice of digging in against the Soviets or launching a risky winter counteroffensive, chose the latter.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
• The Kherson region is one of two where Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive against the Russians.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• The attack comes as Kyiv made some gains in the eastern Donetsk region in its counteroffensive.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• After the counteroffensive, those forces had retreated to about 34 miles away from the city, the official added.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
• But the last counteroffensive in the south so far brought little gains in more than five months, serving as the biggest proof the war has changed since Ukraine's early success.
  — Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2023
• The Pentagon has said before that the F-16s are meant to help Ukraine in the long-term, and that training led by the coalition was not meant to help with Ukraine's current counteroffensive.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Ukrainian troops had recaptured the heights over Bakhmut and made some advances west, north and south of the city since Kyiv launched its summer counteroffensive.
  — TIME, 12 Nov. 2023
• Interest in mounting such a counteroffensive has been building on the right of late.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• Today in the east, Ukrainian brigades around Kharkiv, just north of Kramatorsk, have launched a counteroffensive.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• Ukraine is counting on the heat of late spring and summer to dry the ground into firm pavement — ideal for the heavy tanks and artillery pieces that will be central to the counteroffensive.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• This counteroffensive has caused a large number of Russian forces around Kharkiv to retreat, though the area continues to face heavy shelling.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Oct. 2022
• Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive has been months in the making.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Ukraine has in recent weeks been laying the ground for a counteroffensive in Kherson, which Russian forces seized in the early days of the invasion.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Cutting Russia’s supply lines to Crimea is a main goal of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• This would be the culmination of a counteroffensive that has driven back Russian forces from the gates of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The scale of the new offensive appeared to suggest the Kremlin is seeking to turn the tide of the war after months of defending against Ukraine's counteroffensive.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• For now, Ukraine is reporting that its counteroffensive around Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, has advanced to the Russian border.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The Ukrainian marine corps’ 35th and 37th Brigades have led the attacks along the Donetsk axes of the ongoing counteroffensive.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• In the lead-up to Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive, which kicked off in June 2023, Ukrainian brigades equipped and trained for one of the most difficult maneuvers in land warfare: a breach.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024