The contrasting claims came as Pope Francis’s peace envoy, Matteo Zuppi, arrived in Kyiv for 2 days of talks. Read more at straitstimes.com.
while Russia said it had repelled a large-scale attack.
Ukraine says it has been preparing a major offensive to recapture territory lost to Russia, but that there would be no announcement about when it would start. Earlier on Monday, Russia’s defence ministry said “the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front” on Sunday in the south of the Donetsk region.It is one of four eastern Ukrainian territories thatalong with Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, despite never fully controlling them.
Mr Kots said Ukrainian forces were “conducting offensive operations” in and around Bakhmut but suggested Kyiv had not yet “introduced the main forces into battle”. In a promotional video released on Sunday and urging silence in regard to any military actions, Ukraine’s defence ministry said “the beginning will not be announced.”Offensive ‘does not exist’
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