Ukraine and Russia transform the bodies of soldiers
Kiev and Moscow exchanged bodies of 160 dead. According to Ukraine, there are also talks about the transfer of prisoners of war. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are in Russian hands. Fierce fighting continues on Sverdlovskaya. An overview.
D.That is Ukraine and Russia According to officials On the other hand from Kiev Bodies of 160 soldiers Hand over, hand over responsibility. On June 2, the Ukrainian Ministry of Reconstruction announced in Kiev on Saturday that the front line in the Zaporizhia region would be temporarily reorganized.
Ukraine has repeatedly called on Russia to accept the dead soldiers, accusing the leadership in Moscow of treating its own armed forces like “cannon fodder” and not caring about decent burial.
It said civil servants of the Ukrainian secret services and the armed forces and other security structures were involved in the exchange. According to Ukrainian sources, talks on the transfer of prisoners of war are still ongoing on both sides. Thousands of Ukrainian militants have been involved in Russian violence, including Mariupol’s bodyguards, who held the fort at the Azovstal steel plant until they left Kiev in May.
According to Ukrainian sources, a German soldier was also killed in the fighting. Four foreign volunteers who fought on the side of Ukraine were killed International Security Force Saturday Ukraine. In addition to Germany, three people from the Netherlands, France and Australia were killed.
Russia demolishes bridges in Zhivorodonetsk – talks about Ukraine’s recapture
In the meantime, around Schweizerotonesk Fierce fighting continued in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian civil servants announced on Saturday that Russia was strengthening its forces around the industrial city. However, Sergei Hajde, governor of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, told television that Ukrainian forces continued to hold their positions in the city, pushing back Russian troops in several places. Russian troops blow up bridges in Sverdlovsk, preventing military equipment and civilian aid from entering the city. One-fifth of the city lost to the Russian military is back under Ukrainian control. The information cannot be verified independently.
Governor Hajde said on Ukrainian television that it was unrealistic that Siverotonetsk would fall in the next two weeks. “Once we have enough Western long-range weapons, we will push their artillery out of our positions. Then, trust me, the Russian infantry, they will run.
The industrial city of Siverodonetsk is located on the Shivarsky Donetsk, its twin city on the other side of the river. Lisitsansk. Russian troops now surround the city on three sides, not the west. Now Russia openly wants to close this gap and finally disconnect the city from Ukrainian controlled territory.
However, according to Ukrainian civil servants, Russian attacks on the suburbs Ustinovka Attempted ground attack in space failed பச்முட். Russian attacks from night to Saturday Slovenian According to Ukrainian public servants, it failed. As a rule, information about military events can not be verified independently.
According to British military intelligence, the Russian military maintains a large number of artillery and air strikes in eastern Ukraine. “Increased use of unguided ammunition has led to large-scale destruction of built-up areas in the Donbass and has certainly caused significant parallel damage and civilian casualties,” the Defense Ministry said in a regular intelligence report on Twitter. Russia has stepped up its tactical airstrikes in support of slow progress. Warplanes and artillery will be used.
Ukraine expects the war to end in two to six months
The Ukrainian presidential administration has predicted that the Russian war of aggression will last up to six months. “This may take another two to six months,” said Mikhail Podoliyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president. Anti-Russian online portal “Medusa” Considering the possible duration of the war on Friday evening. Ultimately, it depends on how the mood is changing in the communities of Europe, Ukraine and Russia.
Negotiations will only take place when the situation on the battlefield changes, and I do not think Russia can dictate the rules anymore, Podoljak said. He again warned against regional concessions to Russia. It will not end the war. “This is the basis of the Russian Federation – and Mr. (Vladimir) Putin has said it many times – only the existence of the Ukrainian state can be harmful.” Russian progress is therefore aimed at capturing specific territories rather than destroying Ukraine. .
Bodoljak estimated the Russian losses at a total of 80,000. The dead and wounded in the regular army, the separatists and the mercenary group “Wagner”. However, he acknowledged that the current casualties of Russian and Ukrainian troops were “comparable” to 1,000 war deaths a day after a catastrophic initial phase of war for Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky recently claimed his own losses, killing 100 people every day and injuring 500 others.
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