Moscow’s forces have beaten back a multi-pronged Ukrainian offensive launched in the eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on June 5.
“On June 4, the enemy made an unsuccessful attempt at a large-scale offensive in the South Donetsk direction,” the ministry stated in a daily briefing.
It went on to assert that a Ukrainian assault involving six mechanized battalions and two tank battalions was stopped in its tracks by air strikes and artillery.
The ministry put total Ukrainian losses at 300 personnel, 16 tanks, and 26 armored vehicles.
Service members of pro-Russian troops stand next to a howitzer during an exhibition of Ukrainian army hardware and weapons left in the city after its withdrawal from Lysychansk, Luhansk Region, Ukraine, on July 8, 2022. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
Russia’s TASS news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying that the “large-scale” offensive was launched along “five sectors” of the Donetsk front….