While the Ukrainian counterattack against Russian troops in the south of the country continues, today, Sunday, the Ukrainian army carried out 14 raids on Russian facilities during the day.
An Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath correspondent also reported that Ukrainian forces have concentrated their attacks on the Zaporozhye and Mariupol directions.
It states that recently there have been fierce battles on the Maryinsky front in Donetsk.
Russia responds to the battlefield
It comes as both sides of the conflict trade victories. The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier today Sunday that its forces were able to repel a series of Ukrainian attacks on three sectors of the front as it said Ukraine was applying more pressure. in the Zaporozhye region.
And the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that Russian troops prevented attacks by Ukrainian troops in the directions of Zaporozhye, southern Donetsk and Donetsk.
The most intense fighting took place in the Zaporozhye direction, Konashenkov said in a press statement, noting that Ukrainian forces carried out an unsuccessful attack by three tactical groups supported by tanks and armored vehicles in the settlements of Novopokrovka, Novodanilivka and Malaya. Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region.
Difficult but moving forward
Notably, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed last week that the counterattack, which was expected in the spring but postponed to avoid heavy casualties, is difficult but moving forward.
At the same time, many Ukrainian officials confirmed that their country’s forces achieved important results and returned several villages that were occupied by the Russians.
However, Moscow played down these “claims”, claiming that its forces would thwart this attack and bury it on their soil.
Meanwhile, many observers expect that the battles will not be easy for both sides and that the war will last even longer, in light of the blocking of any horizon for a solution or the possibility of resuming negotiations between the two sides.
