2023-06-12 01:50:36
Soldiers raised the Ukrainian flag on a building damaged in previous bombing in an unverified video released by the brigade 68 The Ukrainian said that the village is Blahodatny in the Donetsk region.
“We see the first results of counterattack moves,” a spokesman for one of the sectors of the Ukrainian army said on television.
He added that the village is located on the outskirts of the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions, a few kilometers south of the Kiev-controlled village of Velika Novoselka.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hana Malyar said afterwards in a statement that Kiev forces also regained control of Makarivka, a village adjacent to the previous one, and advanced to a distance of between 300 And1500 meters in two directions on the south front.
A Ukrainian defense unit also published unverified footage on Telegram of its soldiers raising the flag in Neskochny, the village closest to the Ukrainian positions in the area.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave the strongest signal yet that Kiev had launched a long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory in the east and south from Russia, stressing that “counter-offensive and defensive operations” were already underway.
The video from Blahodatny showed Ukrainian forces inside a badly damaged building, while the sound of artillery could be heard in the distance.
“We are expelling the enemy from the lands of our country. This is the warmest feeling ever. Ukraine will win, Ukraine above all,” said an unidentified soldier in the video on Facebook.
Makarievka is approx 90 Kilometers northwest of the city of Mariupol, which overlooks the Sea of Azov on the southern end of the land bridge. Russia seized the city last year after besieging and bombing it for several weeks.
Kiev officials imposed a strict period of silence on the operations, urging Ukrainians not to disclose any information that could jeopardize the operation.
Russia built huge fortifications in the areas it occupied to prepare to repel the Ukrainian counterattack launched by Kiev with thousands of trained and armed forces from the West.
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He pledged to fight after targeting Western armored vehicles
On Sunday, the Ukrainian infantry forces vowed to resume fighting soon, after the Its American-made Bradley armored vehicles were damaged or destroyed during an attack on Russian positions. last week.
A group of Ukrainian Bradley fighting vehicles, supported by German-made Leopard tanks, came under fire on Wednesday while the brigade was 47 Launches an offensive in southeastern Zaporizhia.
Footage of the ambush, captured by drones and broadcast on Russian propaganda channels, showed several damaged vehicles.
A group of Ukrainian soldiers who were resting outside the small town of Orekhiv in the southern Zaporizhia region said they had lost most of their Bradleys.
Of the nine vehicles attached to the group’s mechanized infantry unit – which was not the only one involved in the attack – six were destroyed, and three were damaged but repairable.
The group said it was confident that Russian forces had been informed of the impending attack, noting that it suspected an informant.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that there are “counter-offensive and defensive measures” that are currently being implemented along the front line with Russia, but Kiev refrains from providing details about its strategy.
The International Criminal Court is investigating the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday 06/12/2023 that work has already begun on an investigation by the International Criminal Court into the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam and the massive flood that caused it.
“Representatives of the International Criminal Court have visited the Kherson region in recent days,” Zelensky added in his videotaped evening address.
“On the first day after the disaster, the Public Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to the International Criminal Court on the investigation into this disaster and work has already begun,” he said.
He added that it is important for international legal experts to see the repercussions of the disaster, including incidents of bombing of flooded areas. Officials said three people were killed on Sunday in Russian shelling of boats carrying evacuees.
The president said that Ukrainian rescue teams have evacuated approx 4000 A person from the affected areas, including areas on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River occupied by Russia.
Russia killed three by bombing rescue boats
Ukraine-appointed governor of the Kherson region Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces had bombed three small boats carrying elderly residents to safety from flooded areas in the south of the country, killing three people and wounding them. 10 others.
The Ukrainian official added that three were killed and 10 wounded, including two law enforcement officials, during evacuations from Russian-controlled parts of the Kherson region to Ukrainian-controlled parts.
Prokudin said on television that the old man 74 A year old, he used his body to protect a woman from Russian fire, and he was seriously wounded in the back, and the paramedics could not save him.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the incident and repeated accusations that Russia was responsible for destroying the dam, which led to flooding of towns, and said that Russian forces were now targeting residents trying to evacuate the affected areas.
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