Moscow says it averted major attack in Ukraine, but Wagner mercenary chief Prigozhin says ground lost
Moscow announced on Monday that it had repelled a major Ukrainian offensive in the southern part of the Donetsk region, but the head of Wagner’s Russian mercenaries Yevgeny Prigozhin he said Russian forces lost ground further north, around Bakhmut.
Asked if the attacks represented the start of Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive against the Russian invasion, Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, told Reuters: “The war continues. Until complete victory.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine had attacked early Sunday morning with six motorized battalions and two tank battalions in southern Donetsk, where Moscow has long believed Ukraine would seek to drive a wedge into Russian-controlled territory. .
“On the morning of June 4, the enemy launched a large-scale attack on five sectors of the front in the direction of South Donetsk,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram at 1:30 a.m. (Moscow time and Greece time).
“The enemy’s objective was to penetrate our defenses in the most vulnerable, in his view, sector of the front,” he said. “The enemy did not achieve their objectives, they were not successful.”
Asked for comment, a Ukrainian military spokesman said: “We have no such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake news.”
Further north, near the disputed town of Bakhmut, Ukrainian ground forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces were “advancing”.
Armed forces video showed Russian positions coming under fire, and Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said Ukrainian forces had recaptured part of the settlement of Berkhivka, north of Bakhmut. speaking of “dishonor”.
In the daily report of the Ukrainian General Staff, it is only mentioned that 29 battles took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine, while the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications said that Russia will seek to spread lies.
“In order to demoralize Ukrainians and mislead the community (including their own population), Russian propagandists will spread false information about the counterattack, its directions and the losses of the Ukrainian army,” it said.
Source :Skai
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