2023-06-18 01:45:49
Destroyed tank outside the city of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Mailar has announced “tactical successes” on all fronts where the military counterattack once morest Russian forces has been launched.
“In virtually every sector our units in the south are attacking, they have achieved tactical successes. They are gradually advancing. At this time the advance is up to two kilometers in each direction », he recounted in a message published on Telegram.
In Berdiansk and Mariupol Russian forces “are withdrawing troops from other positions and increasing firepower” as the advance runs into mines.
This “partial success” has been achieved despite the “enemy’s air and artillery superiority,” Mailar stressed. He also stressed that “in the directions in which we are on the defensive, not a single position has been lost and the enemy has not been able to advance.”
In the east, operations are concentrated in the town of Limansk, where “the enemy is trying to dislodge our troops from their positions.”
Meanwhile, in Bakhmut, the epicenter of the fighting in recent weeks, “the general intensity of the hostilities has decreased somewhat” while the Ukrainians are taking positions in height and forests “with the aim of gradually displacing the enemy from the approaches to Bakhmut » despite the fact that they are receiving reinforcements from other sectors.
RUSSIA SHOT DOWN 3 IBAN DRONES ATTACK DRUZHBA REFINERY
The governor of the Russian region of Briansk, Alexander Bogomaz, announced this Saturday the shooting down of three drones that were preparing to attack the crude oil refinery during the night.
“Air defense units of the Russian Armed Forces tonight repelled an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Druzhba oil refinery in the Novozibkovsky urban district. Three aircraft-type drones have been destroyed thanks to the professionalism of our military air defense systems,” Bogomaz explained on Telegram.
On June 9, the Russian authorities reported drone attacks once morest Belgorod and Kursk. In Belgorod one of the aircraft hit an office and caused a fire, and in Kursk a drone crashed near a fuel depot in the regional capital.
Ukrainian drone strikes focus on Russian war logistics, though kyiv has not acknowledged any of these strikes.
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