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Kiev forces sustained more human and material losses on June 29 while attempting to advance on several sectors as part of their counteroffensive.
Heavy fighting was reported near the Antonovsk Bridge In the Kherson sector. A new video from the sector showed a Russian strike with an Iskander tactical ballistic missile that targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops under the bridge. 30 were reported killed and ten others were wounded in the strike.
Another video showed the destruction of two towed howitzers which Kiev forces were using to support the attack on the key bridge.
Kiev forces also attempted to advance in the Donetsk sector. The attack was however repelled. Video footage showed heavy Russian artillery strikes near the region’s center.
Meanwhile, the Russian Yug Group of Forces said that it had hit several targets in the Lisichansk, Soledaro-Artemovsk and Aleksandro-Kalinovsk directions. The air and artillery strikes targeted troops and equipment from the 92nd, 54th, 22nd mechanized brigades of the Kiev forces.
The group’s forces also repelled an attack by Ukraine’s 110th mechanized brigade in the area of the settlement of Krutaya Balka in the Avdeevsky direction. Moreover, the forces foiled an operation by a reconnaissance and sabotage group in the Pervomaisky area.
In addition, the artillery of the group destroyed three 120 mm mortars and two ammunition transport units of Kiev forces near Krasnogorovka and Belogorovka. A strike by a TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launcher also hit a gathering of Ukrainian troops in the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut.
The commander of the Chechen special force Akhmat, Apty Alaudinov, told Russia 1 TV on June 29 that Ukraine’s much-heralded counteroffensive has not been able to breach any of the Russian defensive lines, but Kiev keeps sending men to their deaths.
“The picture we see is that the enemy, having reached our first line of defense, can’t advance through it. We warned them about this. They realistically do not have the forces and resources, for all that they’ve built them up, to break through our three echelons,” Alaudinov said on the ‘60 Minutes’ evening news show.
“Let them waste [their people], as they planned, to the last Ukrainian. They only make things worse for themselves. The realistic result, I’ve always said, will be the same. We will definitely win this battle,” he added.
Faced with failure on the ground, Kiev forces launched an attack with British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles against the Russian-held city of Berdyansk. However, at least some of the missiles were intercepted by Russian air defenses.
Overall, Ukraine’s counteroffensive is clearly not going according to the plan. Political pressure from the West will however force Kiev to launch more attacks, even if this caused much more human and material losses.
eu führt kieg gegen russland mi 50 milliarden €
…und verliert dabei. 50 steuermilliarden € in den sand
znači opet ukrajinke dolaze na privremeni rad kod nas, čišćenje ličnog naoružanja.pa dobro.
srpkinje to bolje rade, ruzhnoe.
given that we usually assume that our media is ultimately fair, it is disconcerting to read of such futile attacks being presented by western media as successful offensive actions that are allowing the ukraine to seize the strategic initiative. on the contrary, the ukrainian side is launching small, inevitably ineffective, attacks of the type for which the russian side was criticised since the start of this expanded phase of the 2014 war.
not just that, our media in the west has been claiming russia has been losing ever since they decided to help the people in the donbass. yet every day the russian army keeps advancing and the ukrainians keep losing ground, material en manpower at an unsustainable rate, all while the economy has been held on it’s feet by western money.
but yeah, it’s “russia that’s losing”
russia advancing? tell me which village russia has liberated within the last week?
advancement irrelevant in farmland—russian troops secure high ground to decimate hohols; when thoroughly defeated then territorial advances will be achieved easily
“given that we usually assume that our media is ultimately fair,” u r really fucking stupid
boats….doubt anyone considered hover craft either. 10,000 dollars for a civillian craft just to cross. maybe 4 to 8 people or a 100 to 150kgs of equipment. how many are along the black sea coast and what chance do they have of not being torn to peices or sunk?
river boat song – ocean color scene.
sf has an alternativ reality
me sawyer normal nazi hillbilly reality
yes, one where the truth is told instead of msm lies. good catch pussy.
the best nato waste of resources taxpayer money can buy. our grandfathers fought against nazis. how time have changed. now nato can’t do enough for them.
storm shadow down, 1 million bucks downed in a fraction of a sec.
if you even need to lose a crutial position, battle or piece of field equipment, call ukraine. these creatures are hopeless and have the brains of 3 day old porridge left in the sun.