10 things you need to know today: July 27, 2023

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1. Ukraine deploys foreign-trained reserves in counteroffensive's main thrust

Ukrainian forces are now conducting the main push in their two-month-old counteroffensive against Russian invaders, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing two Pentagon officials. Thousands of reinforcements trained and equipped by Western allies have now joined the battle after being held in reserve at the start of the campaign to take back territory occupied by Russian troops. The two sides are fighting artillery battles on the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. Ukraine is trying to cut off the land bridge between Russian-occupied Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized and annexed in 2014, or at least get close enough to hit Russian positions with artillery. "This is the big test," one senior official told the Times.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.