On the morning of June 4, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the South Donetsk direction with the introduction of the 23rd and 31st mechanized brigades from the strategic reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the support of other military units and subunits, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
According to the defense department, the enemy involved a total of six mechanized and two enemy tank battalions. The goal was to break through the defense of the Russian troops in the most vulnerable, as the Armed Forces of Ukraine believed, sector of the front.
As a result of the actions of the Eastern Group of Forces, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 250 personnel, 16 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 21 armored fighting vehicles. The enemy did not achieve his tasks, stressed in the military department.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Gerasimov, Commander of the Joint Group of Forces and Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, was at one of the forward command posts.
Source: Rosbalt
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