2023-06-04 11:27:09
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hana Malyar refused to disclose the date of the counter-attack that Kiev is planning to recapture territory controlled by Russian forces.
“The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense will not announce the start of the counterattack. Our plans love silence,” Malyar said on her Telegram page.
The prominent military official published a video clip of soldiers putting their fingers on their mouths, in reference to the secrecy of the upcoming operation.
Russian attacks continue on Ukraine, the latest of which was a wave of air strikes on Sunday morning that targeted an airport in central Ukraine, but failed to hit Kiev.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ihnat, told local television that 4 out of 6 cruise missiles were shot down by air defenses, but two of them hit one of the “operational airfields” near the city of Kropivnitsky.
He added that two Iranian-made drones out of 5 launched by Russia struck infrastructure facilities in the Sumy region, in the north of the country.
Kiev officials said that the air defenses shot down all the projectiles that targeted the capital before they reached the city.
The governor of a region in central Ukraine said a two-year-old girl was killed and 22 wounded in a Russian missile attack earlier Sunday near the city of Dnipro.
Russia has been stepping up its attacks on the Ukrainian capital since May, particularly at night, in what officials say is an attempt to break morale ahead of an expected counterattack.
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