“Unfortunately, we cannot talk about all our successes so far so as not to disrupt the plan,” the Ukrainian news agency quoted the Army General Staff as saying.
And the authority added: “But believe us, everything will be clear in time. Together we will win. Our fight continues.”
The General Staff said that the Ukrainian forces were launching fierce counterattacks, in order to regain the territories controlled by the Russian forces.
And she continued: “With active combat operations, it is not only the units of the Ukrainian army that inflict losses on the enemy, but also ordinary, unarmed civilians, who show the occupiers (Russian forces) their position, causing psychological defeat.”
The authority indicated that the Russian forces are “disappointed”, with their soldiers and officers continuing to “surrender or flee, leaving behind their weapons and equipment.”
Since the start of the invasion, the Ukrainian side has broadcast news about the army’s steadfastness in the face of the Russians, and its ability to inflict losses on Russian forces at the level of soldiers and equipment, and capture dozens of them.
In the context of the information competition between the two parties, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed, on Friday, a bill that provides for up to 15 years in prison for anyone who publishes false news or information that contradicts the government’s approach to the invasion, after it was ratified by Parliament.
Official Russian news agencies reported that the bill was passed on its third and final reading.
This development comes amid a campaign launched by the Russian authorities on independent media, and campaigns criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began last week.
State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the law would enter into force on Saturday.
The new draft law stipulates that anyone who publishes information deemed false by the Russian authorities will be punished with up to three years in prison, or 15 years if the authorities consider the false information to have “serious consequences.”