Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky announced on Saturday that his army was already carrying out “counter-offensive actions”. The president refrained from specifying in what consists the great attack prepared for months by the Ukrainian general staff.
“Counter-offensive and defensive actions are already taking place in Ukraine. I won’t give more details,” Zelensky said Saturday at a joint news conference in Kyiv with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “You have to trust our military and I trusted them.”
These statements by the Ukrainian president echo the recent announcement by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who said last Friday that the great Ukrainian counter-offensive aimed at subjugating Russian troops had already begun. Additionally, Russian troops reported that major fighting was taking place in southern Ukraine.
So far, Putin claims that the Ukrainian army has not achieved any of its objectives during these battles, and the Ukrainians have also suffered heavy losses. For their part, the Ukrainian authorities have downplayed the importance of the latest fighting and remain ambiguous in their accounts of their strategies.
This Saturday, in a message broadcast on television, the spokesman for the Eastern Command of the Ukrainian army, Sergey Cherevaty, reported that Ukrainian troops managed to advance 1,400 meters around the town of Bakhmut, which Moscow had claimed as captured last month. .
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