“Yesterday it was possible to state the fact that before the NATO summit in Vilnius they launched the third wave of the counteroffensive and chose the same direction of Zaporozhye as a base,” Kimakovsky said on the air of Solovyov Live. Donetsk People’s Republic”.
In the direction of Lugansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using diversionary attacks, they are trying to take more advantageous positions near Avdiivka, while the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing in various directions, but without success, so far not they have done. it has even been able to break through even the first line of defense, Kimakovsky concluded.
A few days earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine must show certain results on the battlefield before the start of the NATO summit. kyiv expects some kind of “powerful signal” of support from the alliance at the next meeting.
The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced about six months ago, began on the night of June 4. The main attacks fell on the southern sector of the front, as well as in the area of the Vremevsky ledge at the junction of the DPR and the Zaporozhye region. After significant losses in manpower and equipment, the intensity of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decreased.
On July 3, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported that the Ukrainian army had lost almost all of the German Leopard tanks supplied to Ukraine by Poland and Portugal.
