Kiev, June 29 (EFE).- The Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Maliar, reported today new advances by her troops of more than 1 kilometer in three different areas of the eastern and southern fronts, and assured that the forces Ukrainian weapons are causing substantial losses to the Russian Army.
“The offensive operation of our Armed Forces continues in the directions of Melitopol, Berdyansk and Bakhmut,” Maliar wrote on his Telegram account.
The deputy minister announced a Ukrainian advance “of 1,300 meters in the direction of Berdyansk”, a port on the Azov Sea occupied by Russia.
Also in the south, Maliar explained that the Kiev forces have managed to consolidate the positions conquered in recent days on the Rivnopil-Volodine axis, where they “inflict serious losses on the enemy.”
These two towns are located in the southwestern part of the Donetsk oblast, near the administrative border with neighboring Zaporizhia.
From this area the Ukrainian forces try to push the occupying Russian troops to the south.
Ukrainian troops take the initiative
According to Maliar, Russia is concentrating an increasing number of troops on the southern front to stop the Ukrainian offensive.
The deputy minister assured that Russia has deployed in that area “a brigade of marines” that had been in the province of Kherson.
Regarding the eastern front, Maliar reported advances of 1,200 meters and 1,500 meters respectively in the direction of the towns of Klishchivka and Kurdiumivka, both located south of Bakhmut.
Maliar explained that Ukraine has taken the initiative in the battle that is being fought next to this city of Donetsk, while Russia continues to launch “unsuccessful” offensives in Liman, Avdivka and Marinka, also on the eastern front.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeri Zaluzhni, also communicated last night by telephone to the US Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, that Ukraine has managed to take “the strategic initiative” in the theaters of operations.
“We talked about the situation at the front. We have managed to take the strategic initiative, ”Zaluzhni said in his Telegram account about the conversation with his United States (USA) counterpart.
The Ukrainian army, its commanding officer also told Milley, “continues to carry out offensive operations” and is “advancing.”