Moscow [Russia], June 6: The Russian Defense Ministry announced yesterday (June 5) that Russian forces successfully repelled a "large-scale attack" on June 4 by Ukrainian troops along five areas of the front line in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. according to RT Radio.
"Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 250 servicemen, 16 tanks, 3 infantry vehicles and 21 armored vehicles," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Later, Boris Rogov, a senior official in the Zaporizhzhia regional government in southern Ukraine appointed by Russia, said that Ukrainian forces were trying to launch a major attack on Russian troops for a second day. consecutively, according to RT. Rogov also said that the attack began near the village of Vremevka in the Donetsk region of the Donbass on the morning of June 5. Rogov assessed that the new offensive was better organized and involved more Ukrainian troops than the June attack.
Ukraine's Strategic Communications Center yesterday did not directly refer to the Russian statement, but said that Moscow would "spread false information about the counterattack and the losses of the Ukrainian army", according to Reuters. .
Meanwhile, Governor VyacheslavGladkov of the Russian province of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, early on June 5 wrote on the messaging app Telegram that a drone attack had caused a fire at an energy infrastructure in the province. , but there were no casualties, according to RT. Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on June 4 that an agreement on Sweden's accession to NATO could be reached during the alliance's summit in Lithuania in the coming weeks. next month, according to Reuters.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper