KYIV — Ukraine on Monday (June 12) said it had retaken seven villages and made small gains in a 'tough' counter-offensive against Russian forces that France said could last months.
KYIV — Ukraine on Monday said it had retaken seven villages and made small gains in a"tough" counter-offensive against Russian forces that France said could last months.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the long-awaited campaign, with weapons donated by Western allies, would be underway for weeks if not months. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope that the offensive would force Russian President Vladimir Putin into talks about ending its invasion.Ukraine's defence minister Ganna Malyar said on Telegram on Monday that"seven settlements were liberated" — referring to the villages of Lobkovo, Levadne and Novodarivka in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, which houses Europe's largest nuclear plant, now under Russian occupation.
It also said it fought off Ukrainian attacks around the village of Levadne in the Zaporizhzhia region."Ukrainian forces made visually verified advances in western Donetsk Oblast and western Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which Russian sources confirmed but sought to downplay," the US-based Institute for the Study of War said in an analytical note on Monday.
In southern Ukraine, two more civilian bodies were found drowned in the heavily flooded city of Kherson, raising the death toll to 10 on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the Dnipro River after the Kakhovka dam was breached."Currently, we know about 10 dead in Kherson and the region," Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram.The governor of the Kherson region said two bodies — one a woman and the other a man — were found on Monday in the regional capital.
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