The morgues of Nikolaev are overcrowded after the failure of an attempted counteroffensive by the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was stated on September 2 by the head of the administration of the Russian-controlled city of Snigirevka, Yuri Barbashov.
“All the morgues are full. Now they are experiencing huge problems with donated blood, with clean water and with the provision of these wounded who were admitted to Nikolaev, ”he said. “RIA News”.
Referring to sources who are familiar with the situation in the medical institutions of Nikolaev, Barbashov specified that more than 2 thousand wounded Ukrainian soldiers were delivered to various hospitals and hospitals in the city.
As Barbashov noted, an offensive attempt was made by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Snigirevka area.
“And in several areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine they took attacking actions, respectively, the Snigirevsky direction turned out to be not the main one. The consequences of these attacks turned out to be very difficult for the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he concluded.
On August 31, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that an attempt by the Ukrainian military to resume offensive operations in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions failed.
On the same day, the Wall Street Journal wrote that the head of the intensive care unit of a hospital in southern Ukraine spoke of a large number of wounded among Ukrainian soldiers.
The next day, September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that in unsuccessful attacks near Kherson, the Ukrainian Armed Forces had lost more than 30 tanks, 350 servicemen over the past 24 hours and were not successful. In total, the losses in manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded 1,700 people.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, continues. The decision to hold it was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military, in connection with which the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics turned to Moscow for help.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
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