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Ukraine counter offensive: official digest. June 21, 2023

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct Ukraine counter offensive operation, with the following success for the past day, June 21, 2023.

The MoD deputy head Hanna Maliar informes this morning that the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue offensive operations in the Melitopol and Berdyansk areas. During the past day, they had partial success, they consolidated at the achieved boundaries and leveled the front line.

In the east, Ukrainian defenders continue to restrain the large-scale offensive of russian troops in the Lyman and Bakhmut directions. Particularly heavy fighting continues in the Lymansky direction in the Yampolivka and Serebryansk forestry districts of the Donetsk region. In the direction of Bilogorivka-Shypylivka, our troops conducted offensive actions and had partial success. Now they are fixed at the achieved boundaries.

The east remains the main direction of the russian forces’s offensive. Their goal is to reach the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The situation is unchanged near Bakhmut, several combat clashes take place every day, the line is stable.

In general, in the east, Ukrainian troops are firmly holding their positions, repelling constant enemy attacks and inflicting maximum losses on the occupier.

Around 3 p.m. Hanna Maliar reports that is hot today on the eastern borders, but the situation is under control. Ukrainian defenders do not give the enemy any chance to advance through Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The spokeswoman of OC “Pivden” Natalia Gumenyuk says that the russians initially retreated by 15 km in some areas of the front in the left bank of the Kherson region, but the more the water recedes after the Kakhovka Dam blow up, the faster the russian occupiers return to their positions and try to intensify the shelling.

In his everning adress, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi says that Ukrainian troops hold the defence in the East and advance in the South.

During this day the following russian forces position were hit by the Armed Forces of Ukraine: