2023-06-19 11:58:09
Ukrainian forces recaptured the town of Piatijatki, on the southern front, Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar declared on social media on Sunday.
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“Eight towns have been liberated” in total this month since the start of a counter-offensive once morest Russian forces, with 113 square kilometers of territory recaptured, the AFP news agency reported.
In the south, Ukrainian troops “advanced up to seven kilometers deep” into Russian positions, the deputy minister said.
On the eastern front, “the general intensity of the fighting dropped last week” and the Ukrainian army “advanced in various directions,” he said, without elaborating.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian Army indicated that it shot down four Kalibr-type missiles and four Iranian-made explosive drones launched by Russia overnight.
“The missile shots were fired from a submarine in the Black Sea and those from drones from the east coast of the Azov Sea,” this source said.
For its part, Russia denounced the possible use of a “nuclear dirty bomb” by Kiev, which will bring devastating consequences, warned the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin.
According to the head of Russian intelligence, evidence has emerged that kyiv might continue working to create such a bomb.
“We believe that the possible use of a nuclear dirty bomb by the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have terrible consequences for the life and health of the entire population and the ecosystem of Eastern Europe, including the States of the European Union and the Black Sea” , said Narishkin, quoted by the press service of the organization he heads, reported the Sputnik agency.
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