In detail, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukrainian forces had launched a failed counter-attack on Nikolaev and Kherson provinces on 3 axes.
The Russian Information Agency, quoting the Defense Ministry, said earlier on Monday that the Ukrainian forces tried to launch an attack in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, but incurred heavy losses.
“The enemy’s attack attempt failed miserably,” she added.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses in personnel and equipment, noting that 560 members of the Ukrainian forces, two Sukhoi-25 aircraft, and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were killed.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the Russian forces destroyed 26 Ukrainian tanks, 23 infantry vehicles, nine armored vehicles of various types, and shot down two Su-25 attack aircraft, while the enemy’s human losses amounted to more than 560 people.
It is noteworthy that the Russian army took control of the Kherson Province and part of the Zaporizhia Province, including some large cities such as Kherson, Melitopol and Berdyansk, and cut off Ukraine from the Sea of Azov.
New departments were formed in the two provinces that announced plans to join Russia.
Ukrainian attack
In Kyiv, a spokeswoman for the Operational Command “YOG” of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Natalia Gomenyuk, said that Ukraine launched a counterattack on the southern front, according to Reuters.
Ukraine later announced that it had breached Russian troop lines in several places near the southern city of Kherson as part of a new campaign to reclaim territory.
Kyiv’s move came after several weeks of relative stalemate in a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions, destroyed cities and triggered a global energy and food crisis amid unprecedented economic sanctions.
“I must note today that the Russian defenses were breached within a few hours,” said Oleksiy Aristovich, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
He added that Ukrainian forces were bombing the ferries used by Moscow to bring supplies into an enclave of territory it controls on the western bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region.
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