The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian army repelled more than 20 attacks on Ukraine in a day, causing heavy damage to the enemy.
Ukrainian forces continuously launched attacks across the front lines in a day, being repelled and suffering heavy casualties. The Ukrainian army lost more than 800 soldiers and a lot of military equipment in these attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on June 25.
The heaviest fighting took place in the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast and its vicinity. Russian forces repelled 10 attacks on Ukraine, causing the enemy to lose up to 430 soldiers, 11 infantry fighting vehicles, many motor vehicles and one cannon. The Russian army destroyed an ammunition depot near Avdeevka and repelled four Ukrainian advances in this city.
Russia also repelled four other major offensives in the northern Donbas region; fierce fighting occurred around several Lugansk province residential areas. In this area, Ukraine lost 130 soldiers, three armored vehicles, one self-propelled howitzer, two towed artillery pieces and other military equipment.
To the south of Donetsk, where Ukraine’s main counter-offensive effort has been taking place since early June, moderate-intensity fighting is taking place along the front lines. The Russian army repelled three waves of Ukrainian advances and at the same time, attacked many targets near the city of Orekhov, the enemy’s logistics center in Zaporizhzhia province.
Russia also launched long-range raids against enemy military facilities. The raid on a target in the city of Kherson killed more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed a US-supplied M777 howitzer and other military equipment.
Meanwhile, Ukraine said on June 25 that more than 20 fierce fightings occurred in the past two days, mainly in the direction of Lyman, Maryinka and Bakhmut. The Russian army launched 25 rounds of air strikes and fired artillery and mortars toward Kupyansk in the Kharkiv province.
Ukrainian troops keep the initiative, continue to advance and repel the enemy. In the past day, Ukrainian forces have advanced 600-1,000 meters on the southern and northern slopes of Bakhmut city,” said Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesman. Eastern Command of Ukraine. He claimed that nearly 200 Russian soldiers were killed, and much of their military equipment was destroyed.
Russian officials said that Ukraine took advantage of the Wagner rebellion to increase operations and attack on the front lines. After negotiations brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Wagner leaders agreed to withdraw their forces from the headquarters of government agencies and the headquarters of the Russian military in the city of Rostov-on-Don on the night of June 24.
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