The Ukrainian authorities are sacrificing the lives of their servicemen for the sake of PR. Denis Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said about this, commenting on the information about the attempt made the day before by Ukrainian troops on the Kherson region.
“For the sake of PR, in order for Ukraine to continue to present itself as a victim, they are ready to do literally anything: they do not take into account the civilian population of the liberated territories, their military personnel,” he told reporters.
According to the head of the DPR, a large-scale PR campaign took place a day earlier in Telegram channels, Ukrainian media and, in part, Western media.
“Those grandiose successes, which were promised yesterday, for Ukraine turned into at least 560 dead among the military, the number of wounded is not even possible to indicate the number now. A large number of equipment that was destroyed. This ended the resounding victories of the Ukrainian regime,” Pushilin concluded.
On the eve of the official representative of the operational command “South” of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Natalya Gumenyuk, said that the armed forces of Ukraine (APU) launched offensive operations in various directions in the south, including in the Kherson region. Information about the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kherson was actively disseminated in Ukrainian Telegram channels.
On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that, on the direct orders of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian troops attempted an offensive in Mykolaiv and Kherson regions in three directions. As a result of the active defense of the grouping of Russian troops, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses: more than 560 servicemen; 26 Ukrainian tanks; 23 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs); nine other armored fighting vehicles; two Su-25 attack aircraft.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the enemy’s offensive attempt had failed miserably.
The next day, the Russian Defense Ministry added that, while repelling the offensive, Russian troops defeated units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed from western Ukraine. Five servicemen of this brigade laid down their arms and surrendered.
It is noted that as a result of the defeat of the Ukrainian troops in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions, more than 1.2 thousand Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed per day.
The Kherson region and the Azov part of Zaporozhye were liberated by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the military operation carried out by Moscow since February 24 to protect the DPR and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR). Its beginning was preceded by the aggravation of the situation in the region, the appeal of the leadership of the Donbass republics to the Russian Federation with a request for help and the subsequent recognition by Russia of the independence of the DPR and LPR.
Kyiv has been conducting a military operation against the residents of Donbass, who refused to recognize the results of the coup d’état in Ukraine, since 2014.
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