Russian army rejects Ukrainian efforts to recover positions

Moscow, May 28 (Prensa Latina) The positions of two Ukrainian brigades that were trying to regain positions in the Serebrianskoye forest area were attacked by the Russian aviation and artillery, informed the spokesman of the Central Troop Grouping, Aleksander Savchuk.

May 28, 2023
09:47

As the military spokesman said on Telegram on Sunday, the nationalists of the 66th Mechanized Brigade and 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported significant casualties after the Russian attack on enemy positions in this sector of Donetsk.

The crews of the Tor-M1 and Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile systems destroyed a Himars-type missile and several UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the Stremennaya and Chervonaya Dibrova settlements, according to Savchuk.

President Vladimir Putin says that the Russian special military operation in eastern Ukraine developed on February 24, 2022, is aimed at demilitarizing and denazifying the neighboring country and preventing attacks by the Kiev regime on the civilian population of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.

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