Russia claim to have thwarted major counteroffensive in Donetsk.
Moscow has claimed hundreds of Ukrainian troops have been killed after a major battlefield offensive against Russian forces was thwarted in the Donetsk region, the Russian defence ministry said today.
At least 250 Ukrainian troops were killed, 16 tanks and infantry vehicles were destroyed, and 21 armoured combat vehicles were damaged in the skirmish, the ministry said.
“On the morning of 4 June, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the South Donetsk direction,” the ministry said today.
“The enemy’s goal was to break through our defences in the most vulnerable, in its opinion, sector of the front” but Ukraine “did not achieve its tasks, it had no success”, the Russian ministry said.
It also shared a video claiming to show several Ukrainian armoured vehicles in a field blowing up after being hit. Officials in Kyiv have not commented on the Russian defence ministry’s claims so far.
It is not clear whether the attack was the start of a long-expected Ukrainian counteroffensive which Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was ready for.
Source: The Independent
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