Hundreds of Ukrainians Killed in Failed Offensive, Reuters reports. Yesterday’s attack (4th of June) was a 2 Brigade strong attack (17% of all UA offensive forces). They will only call it recon in force as long as it doesn’t achieve anything. Western weapons already lay destroyed.
Kiev’s troops have unsuccessfully tried to break through the frontline in Donbass, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Ukraine has launched a large-scale offensive in Donbass, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Ukrainian forces have attacked the Russian troops along five sections of the frontline in Donbass during their “large-scale offensive,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in the early hours of Monday.
According to the MOD, the assault began on Sunday morning. “The enemy’s goal was to breach our defenses in what they assumed was the most vulnerable section of the frontline,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The enemy has failed to reach its goals and was unsuccessful,” the ministry stated.
The MOD said that Ukraine had deployed the 23rd and the 31st mechanized brigade from its “strategic reserves,” which were supported in battle by other units.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 250 service members, 16 tanks, three infantry vehicles, and 21 armored vehicles,” the MOD said.
The ministry released a video of what it said were strikes on Ukrainian military vehicles RT reports
British or American tanks being destroyed by Russian fighter jets amidst Zelensky’s “counteroffensive” near Zaporozhye.
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Via TASS: MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces failed to achieve success in a large-scale offensive on five front sectors in the south Donetsk area, official spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said.
“The adversary launched a large-scale offensive from the morning of June 4 on five sectors of the front in the south Donetsk area by bringing into action 23rd and 31st mechanized brigades from strategic reserves of the Ukrainian armed forces with support from other military units and teams,” the spokesman said. “The adversary’s objective was to break through our defense on the most vulnerable front sector, in its opinion. The enemy failed to perform its tasks and had no success,” Konashenkov noted.
The adversary used six mechanized battalions and two tank battalions, the defense ministry’s spokesman informed. “As a result of skilled and sophisticated action of the Battlegroup East, the Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 250 persons, 16 tanks, three mechanized infantry combat vehicles and 21 combat armored vehicles,” Konashenkov stressed.
He particularly noted that Chief of General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov was at one of frontline command posts in this area. Read More
The photos of two abandoned/destroyed French AMX-10R have been posted in Tg channels. They were supposed to be game changers during the offensive. So we guess the offensive have started, and failed.
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