Russia has denied Kyiv’s claim to have “unquestionably weakened” Moscow’s forces through a counteroffensive in southern Ukraine.
After launching a long-anticipated attack against Russian positions in Kherson region on Monday, the Ukrainian army said it had inflicted heavy losses on the Kremlin. It reported that 82 Russian soldiers had been killed and 30 units of equipments had been destroyed.
Moscow hit out at such allegations on Tuesday, saying the “enemy’s offensive attempt failed miserably”.
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This comes after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told Russian soldiers to flee over the border.
“If they want to survive – it’s time for the Russian military to run away. Go home,” he said in his nightly address on Monday. “Ukraine is taking back its own,” he added.
Oleksiy Arestovych, one of Mr Zelensky’s senior advisers, said Ukraine’s army had managed to overwhelm Russian defences in several places within “a few hours”.
In its latest update on the Ukraine war, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Ukrainian artillery strikes had increased near Russian-held Kherson on 29 August. However, it said it was unable to give further details.
-Independent
