Ukraine’s forces advance on key sectors of the front line. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Ukrainian forces were engaged in offensive and defensive actions in various areas, with Russian forces maintaining large numbers in the east and bringing in reserves from elsewhere.
Near Bakhmut, she said, Ukrainian troops were pressing their advances around villages north and north-west of the city “and progress has been made”.Ms Maliar also noted advances of nearly 1km by Ukrainian forces in two other areas further south near the port cities of Berdyansk and Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.
She said Ukrainian troops were facing strong resistance, including intensified Russian missile and air strikes and artillery and mortar attacks.Reuters could not verify the battlefield situation. Russia has not officially acknowledged the Ukrainian advances, and says Ukrainian troops have suffered heavy casualties, but Reuters has confirmed the liberation of at least two villages.
Russia launched heavy air strikes as the counteroffensive was being prepared, and has carried out more air attacks since it began.“The only thing that changes is the priority of the targets, the time of the strike and the intensity, accordingly,” air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told a separate briefing.
He said air strikes on the capital Kyiv in May were intended partly to cause panic and portray Russian weapons as superior to those provided by Ukraine’s Nato allies. REUTERS
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