The ministry said in a statement: “Total losses of Ukrainian forces south of Donetsk amounted to more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops, 28 tanks, including 8 German-made Leopards, three French-made AMX-10 tanks and 109 armored tanks, combat vehicles.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said the Ukrainian forces were defeated and were unable to carry out the tasks assigned to them in the attack, adding that the attacking Ukrainian military formations and units were seriously damaged.
On the morning of June 4, the Russian army foiled a large-scale Ukrainian attack on 5 sectors of the front in the direction of southern Donetsk, with the participation of six mechanized battalions and two tank battalions, and the ministry said that , Monday On June 5, Ukrainian forces continued to launch attacks on the town of Vrimevsky.
Air attacks on Kiev
Meanwhile, Russia launched a new wave of airstrikes on Kiev overnight, and officials in the Ukrainian capital said air defense systems shot down more than 20 cruise missiles as they approached.
“All were shot down, none hit their target,” Serhiy Popko, head of the military administration in Kiev, said on Telegram.
Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the report.
Reuters witnesses said they heard several explosions similar to the sound of air defense systems, while warnings of airstrikes were issued over the city for more than four hours, starting shortly after midnight.
The military said debris from the missiles fell on roads and damaged power lines of the light rail system in Kiev’s Desnyansky district. The area on the left bank of the Dnipro River is the most densely populated area of ​​Kyiv.
Officials said there were no fatalities or injuries, according to preliminary information available.
Attack at the Kakhovka dam
On the other hand, the Ukrainian army announced that Russian forces had blown up the “Nova Kakhovka” dam in the Kherson region, which Moscow denied.
The Southern Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Tuesday that Russian forces had blown up the Nova Kakhovka Dam, located in the Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region.
The command added on its Facebook page: “The extent of the destruction, the speed and the quantities of water, as well as the areas likely to be flooded are being determined”.
Russian news agency Tass said the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Kherson region had been destroyed.
“TASS” quoted an informed source, whose identity was not mentioned, that the huge Nova Kakhovka dam, located in the Russian-controlled parts of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, has been destroyed and water flooded the area. as saying the night was calm and there were no airstrikes on the dam during the night.
The Russian news agency quoted the Moscow-appointed mayor of Nova Kakhovka as saying that the upper part of the dam was destroyed as a result of the shelling.
Reuters could not independently verify this information.
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