Russia claims on Monday to have repelled a “large-scale offensive” Ukrainian in the Donbass, without kyiv immediately confirming having carried out this operation.
“On the morning of June 4, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the direction of the southern Donestk region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, without specifying the exact location of the attack. battle. “The enemy did not achieve their goal, they did not succeed,” he added, accompanying his announcement with a video showing what is presented as Ukrainian armored vehicles filmed from the air in the process of be destroyed by Russian forces.
Also according to the ministry, the chief of staff of the Russian army, General Valéri Guérassimov, “was during this period at one of the forward command posts in this direction”.