2023-06-10 21:55:00
The Russian Defense Ministry reports Ukrainian offensive operations along the front line south and east of Zaporizhia.
The Defense Ministry update, posted on its Telegram channel, said troops from the Vostok brigade immediately southeast of the frontline town of Orikhiv had repelled two advance attempts by Ukrainian tank units, one near the village of Novopokrovka.
In addition, he said that two Ukrainian armored columns had been repulsed near Novodanilovka and Mala Tamkachka.
In the same area, Russian military bloggers said that Russian troops in positions close to the road south of Orikhiv to Tokmak continued to report extremely heavy Ukrainian artillery fire.
Further east along the front line, southwest of Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said three other breakthrough attempts had been made by Ukrainian forces, which it said had all been defeated.
CNN cannot verify the Russian Defense Ministry’s claims, and the picture is no clearer from the Ukrainian side. Kyiv officials have disclosed little information since they intensified activities on the Zaporizhia-Donetsk front about six days ago.
President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Ukraine’s latest military operations at a news conference on Saturday, when asked to respond to comments by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who said on Friday: “It can be stated with absolute certainty that the counteroffensive [ucraniana] has started. The Russian leader added that he had not had any success.
Zelensky said that “relevant counter-offensive defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. I will not give any details about the stage he is in.”
“It is interesting that Putin was talking about our counteroffensive. It is important that Russia feels [la contraofensiva]feel that you don’t have much time left,” he said.
After spending most of the winter embroiled in fighting around Bakhmut, as well as training its soldiers and waiting for the arrival of Western military aid such as tanks and long-range strike weapons such as Storm Shadow missiles, in recent weeks Ukraine has taken a clear step. launch military activities.
These have included what are known as shaping operations (strikes against targets far behind the front lines, such as fuel depots and soldiers’ barracks) and, more recently, probing operations, in which an army carries out what are sometimes called reconnaissance operations in force, which are designed to test the enemy’s weaknesses as well as his combat readiness.
However, it is not yet clear that Ukraine has begun to move large numbers of ground forces in an attempt to recapture the large swaths of territory still held by the occupying Russian forces.
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