Russia has redoubled its airstrikes and strengthened its lines on various fronts to stop the announced and imminent counter-offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces.
Russian attack aircraft and bombers attacked enemy positions in eastern and southern Ukraine, the spokesman said Ministry of Defense of RussiaLieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, when he offers his daily share.
In the sectors of Liman and Donetsk (east), aviation, together with artillery fire and action of ground troops, caused more than 320 deaths in Ukrainian ranks, he assured.
Russian planes also attacked Ukrainian positions south of the city Donetsk and in the region of Zaporozhye, where they inflicted “up to 120 deaths” on the enemy, according to Konashenkov.
He emphasized that during the past day, Russian air defense shot down two Storm Shadow cruise missiles, 19 HIMARS missiles, two HARM anti-radar missiles and 12 drones.
According to the adviser of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mihail Podoljak, the Ukrainian counter-offensive has been underway for several days “with certain military operations”.
In an interview published this Friday on YouTube with an exiled Russian journalist Julia Latininathe Ukrainian adviser explained that these military operations are aimed at undermining the defensive capacity of Russian lines, attacking their command posts and logistics chains
However, the Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov disavowed Podolyak, stating that the spring counter-offensive announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not yet begun.
The counter-offensive can start tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or within a week, Danilov said in an interview with the BBC, in which he indicated that it would be rare for him to set a date for one or the other event.
“We have a mission of great responsibility before our country. And we know we have no right to be wrong.”he emphasized.
Signals about an imminent Ukrainian counter-offensive were reinforced today by the announcement of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny on his Telegram channel.
“The time has come to return what is ours,” Zalužni posted a video with that legend military sentences with pictures of units of tanks preparing for battle.
Source: Panama America
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