MOSCOW, 5 Jun. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not be able to hide from the United States the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in equipment and manpower after an attempted offensive on the southern sector of the front on the morning of June 4, ex-adviser to Kuchma Oleg Soskin said on his YouTube blog.
« «Why are you lying? You can see everything from space, the West will publish it all — how many tanks have been lost, how many armored vehicles and everything else. But then, Zelensky, your lies will look even worse. It is clear that you started advancing there. But you explained to the guys, what awaits them?» the expert asked.
On Monday, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on the morning of June 4, the armed forces of Ukraine launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the Yuzhnodonetsk direction in order to break through the defenses in the most vulnerable, according to Kiev, sector of the front. The department noted that «the enemy did not achieve his tasks, he had no success.»