Russia says it repels big attack in Ukraine but Russian mercenary leader says some ground lost
Moscow said on Monday it had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the south of Ukraine‘s Donetsk region but Russia’s main mercenary leader said Russian forces had lost ground around Bakhmut further north.
Asked whether the attacks represented the start of Ukraine‘s long-heralded counter-offensive against Russia’s invasion, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine‘s Security and Defence Council, told Reuters: “The war continues. Until complete victory.”
Russia’s defence ministry said Ukraine had attacked on Sunday morning with six mechanised and two tank battalions in southern Donetsk, where Moscow has long suspected Ukraine would seek to drive a wedge through Russian-controlled territory.
“On the morning of June 4, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the South Donetsk direction,” the defence ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram at 1.30 a.m Moscow time (22.30 GMT).
“The enemy’s goal was to break through our defences in the most vulnerable, in its opinion, sector of the front,” it said. “The enemy did not achieve its tasks, it had no success.”
Asked to comment, a Ukrainian military spokesperson said: “We do not have such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake.”
Eleanor Noyce5 June 2023 13:20
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Ukraine has enough weapons for counter-offensive, says foreign minister
Ukraine has enough weapons for its counter-offensive against Russia, and the operation will give the country the victory it needs to join NATO, foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told Reuters on Monday.
Membership of the military alliance would “probably” only be possible for Ukraine after the end of active hostilities, Kuleba said in an interview in Kyiv.
He did not say whether the counter-offensive had started when asked.
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