Russia claims to have thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the Donetsk region

Russia said on Monday that it repelled a large-scale Ukrainian offensive in the region of Donetsk (this), but kyiv He did not rule on the matter, maintaining the mystery about the counterattack that he has been preparing for months to recover his occupied territories.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense indicated in a statement that it repelled on the morning of June 4. attacks in five sectors from the front “in the southern direction of the region of Donetsk”.

In a second statement, he noted that Ukrainian troops suffered heavy losses near Neskuchnein the region of Donetskand of Novodarivkaon the border of this region and that of Zaporizhiafurther south.

“The enemy did not achieve his objective” to break through the Russian lines, he assured, showing pictures of destroyed ukrainian armored vehicles.

The boss of the Russian General Staff and commander of operations in UkraineThe general Valery Gerasimov, “He was at one of the forward command posts in this direction at the time.”, according to the statement.

Ukrainian forces are also on the offensive further north, near bakhmuta city that Moscow claimed to have taken in May after months of deadly fighting.

According to the head of the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, “a part of the town of Berkhivka was lost”which he described as a “shame”.

The Ukrainian authorities have not said anything about it. They had warned that they would not reveal anything about the plans or schedule of their counteroffensive announced months ago to recover their occupied territories in the south and east of the country.

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kyiv silence

In support of this, a video circulates on social networks in which soldiers appear putting their finger to their lips, accompanied by the slogan: “Plans like silence”.

citing Depeche Modethe defense minister Oleksii Reznikov tweeted the video on Sunday, accompanied by a passage from a song by the British electronic music band “Words are useless, they can only hurt”.

Russian military experts think that Ukrainian troops multiply attacks on the Russian lines to discover their flaws, before launching a major counterattack.

This was what happened in September 2022, when the army of kyiv secretly prepared an assault with which they reconquered almost the entire region of Kharkiv (northeast).

The war correspondent faithful to the Kremlin, Alexandre Kotsreported ongoing fighting since early Monday in the area of vugledarin the south of the Donetsk region, and further north, near solder and bakhmuttwo cities occupied by the Russians after months of bloody battles.

However, according to him, it is not yet a major attack.

the ukrainians “they have not yet sent their main forces into battle. And when they do, they could do it in another sector” from the front, he pointed out.

The Secretary of Defense of USA, Lloyd Austinconfirmed the fighting near bakhmut and in the south of the region of Donetskbut did not rule on its strategic significance.

“I think the best thing is to let the Ukrainians communicate about your operation”declared Austin from New Delhi.

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“What is going to happen?”

On the other hand, for two weeks the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraineis the scene of attacks, shelling and fighting between the Russian army and Russian fighters pro-ukrainians.

In an operation on Sunday, one of these groups took prisoners, who it said will be handed over to kyiv. In a released video you can see images of a dozen detainees, two of them injured.

It’s the first time that capture Russian citizens on Russian territory.

The Governor of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkovtalked about possible negotiations, but the fighters pro-ukrainians they said in the video that the Russian officials did not come to an agreed appointment.

In recent days the fighting has concentrated in the towns of Novaya Tavolzhanka and Shebekinonear the border, which has forced thousands of civilians to flee to the regional capital of the same name Belgorod.

“We are in a terrible state. But we endure, we try to be strong because we have children (…). But what will happen next? We do not know anything”he told AFP Irina Burlakovaa displaced person who went to look for humanitarian aid in a center.

This 30-year-old woman fled from Shebekino with her husband and son. They lived in the center of the city, hit in recent days by heavy artillery fire.

In the evening, the Belgorod region was once again targeted by shelling and a drone attack that injured one and damaged an energy infrastructure site, according to Gladkov.

Ukraine he insists he is not behind these attacks.

Source: Elcomercio

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