MOSCOW, 4 Sep. Advisor to the office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich said that he misled the public when he talked about the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the fronts.
"It was very, very difficult for us. And I smiled on the air and said that we were fine", — he admitted in an interview "Feigin Live"*.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported a failed attempt by the Ukrainian army to attack Nikolaev- Krivoy Rog direction. According to the agency, as a result of the devastating defeat, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 1,700 people in two days. Since February 24, Moscow has been conducting a special military operation to liberate Donbass. Vladimir Putin called its task «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The Russian army, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, completely liberated the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic and Svyatogorsk, as well as the entire Kherson region, the Azov districts of Zaporozhye and part of Kharkiv.* The media acting as a foreign agent APU cannot decipher radio intercepts