MOSCOW—Russia said Monday it had repelled “a large-scale offensive” by Ukrainian forces in Moscow-annexed Donetsk, as fighting intensified along their border.
Kyiv has for months said it is preparing a major counteroffensive, hoping to reclaim territory lost since Russia launched its military operation in February 2022.Russia’s Ministry of Defence reported that on Sunday, in the south of Donetsk, “the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front.”
President Vladimir Putin’s top commander in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, “was at one of the advanced command posts,” its statement added. On the other side of the frontier, Russia’s army also claimed to have repelled a “sabotage group of Ukrainian terrorists” seeking to cross the border near the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, in the Belgorod region.Belgorod’s governor said Sunday that fighting was ongoing near Novaya Tavolzhanka and acknowledged pro-Ukrainian forces had taken Russians prisoner during cross-border clashes.“I hope they will all be destroyed.
Fighting around the village follows last month’s dramatic armed incursion from Ukraine into the Belgorod region which forced Russia to use its artillery and air force on home soil.A video published by the nationalists and addressing the governor appeared to show three “prisoners” who their captors called “simple soldiers sent by your leadership to this war”.They called on the governor to meet them in a church in Novaya Tavolzhanka on the Orthodox “Trinity” holiday.
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