Moscow (BLAZETRENDS).- Russia assured today that it had repelled ten attacks by Ukrainian forces on the Donetsk and Zaporizhia fronts in the last day.
“Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have continued unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations in the southern-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, as well as in the Bakhmut city area,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. .
The lieutenant general assured that in the direction of Zaporizhia, in the southeast of Ukraine, the Vostok group (east), Russian aviation and artillery repelled two enemy attacks on two towns in this province and eliminated two columns of armored vehicles in two others. villages.
Konashenkov also reported “three failed attacks” in another sector of Zaporizhia and in two towns in the Donetsk region.
“All enemy attacks were repulsed by the courageous and resolute actions of the units of the Vostok troop group,” he said.
The military spokesman maintained that, in the operation, Ukraine lost “up to 300 soldiers.”
In addition, he claimed that Ukrainian troops lost nine tanks (four of them German Leopards), 11 infantry fighting vehicles (including five American Bradleys), 14 armored vehicles, six vehicles and a French-made Caesar propelled artillery installation.
In the area of the city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, the group of South Russian troops repelled five Ukrainian attacks, Konashenkov said.
“The enemy is not allowed to break our defense,” he stressed, noting that during the fighting in this direction, “up to 230 Ukrainian soldiers, two armored combat vehicles, five vehicles and two Soviet 122-mm D-30 howitzers” were eliminated.
Zelensky claims that the counteroffensive is “underway” but without revealing scope or details
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, affirmed today that the expected counter-offensive to recover territories occupied by Russian troops is already “underway”, although without revealing the scope or details about its status.
The Ukrainian leader affirmed that he would not give information about “the state” of that military operation, to questions asked during a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who arrived in Kiev this Saturday on an unannounced visit. previously.
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured yesterday that the counter-offensive had already begun, to then add that the Ukrainian attacks of the past few days on the front had “failed”.
Since kyiv had not confirmed until then a start of such operations.
Trudeau announces a new military aid package for Ukraine
In his press conference with Zelensky, Trudeau announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, as well as his country’s participation in training Ukrainian pilots to handle F-16 fighter jets.
This new aid package will be worth 500 million dollars, reports the Ukrinform portal, and will include 299 AIM-7 air defense missiles, according to the Ukranian portal, which refers these details to a Canadian government statement from Ottawa, coinciding with the visit .
The North American country is also participating in the organization of a logistics and maintenance center in Poland for Leopard tanks supplied by Western allies to Ukraine.
The Canadian delegation’s visit comes as Zelensky is reinforcing efforts to alleviate the effects of the flooding caused by the blowing up of the Kakhovka dam and while intense fighting is taking place on the front lines.
The Canadian leader, for his part, is responsible for monitoring the management of the crisis caused in his country by the hundreds of devastating forest fires that have broken out in recent days in his country.
