The Ukrainian military is suffering heavy casualties as it tries to retake territories seized earlier by Russian forces in the south of the embattled country.
The Ukrainian armed forces’ attempts at an offensive continue on the Nikolaev-Krivorozsk and other directions, and the proxy enemy is suffering considerable losses.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said that the counteroffensive had been planned by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s office solely to create the illusion before the Western backers that the Ukrainian military is able to conduct an offensive.
Shoigu also claimed that Russian forces had taken over a village in Kherson region and reached the administrative border with Nikolaev region.
On Tuesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry issued a statement claiming that its troops had killed over a thousand Ukrainian service members as well as foreign mercenaries and destroyed dozens of tanks and armored military vehicles in just one day.
The Ukrainian government has been talking about a counteroffensive in the south of the country for several months now.
In a video address on Sunday, President Zelensky promised to also reclaim the whole of Donbass, parts of the Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions currently held by Russian forces, as well as Crimea.
Since the start of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, in total, 286 airplanes and 151 helicopters, 1,867 unmanned aerial vehicles, 372 air defense missile systems, 4,776 tanks and other armored combat vehicles have been neutralized.
Together with 824 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,366 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,250 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
To detect and detain the increased number of deserters, more military patrols were redeployed to Nikolayev and additional posts were deployed at the approaches to the city.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point Military News 2022.
US taxpayers: stop paying taxes to fund two major proxy wars. You are working for an irresponsible aggressor government that spends up all your earnings, robbing your families. Same for Europeans . And it has begun in the Czech Republic already. In the end I think that the people will put an end to this mendacious deadly nonsense.
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The Kiev forces have been in a defensive posture, defending dug in positions they have established in the prior 8 years. Now they are going on the attack. This is a different ball game. Time will reveal whether they have what it takes.
The above Russian MOD statement shows Russia “has what it takes ” by actual fact not supposition–now on to Odessa !
The last objective to liberate targeted Russian-speaking minorities in Eastern Ukraine.
Not much left over to attack with?