Ukraine officials said that the southern counteroffensive 'remains difficult' but was being 'controlled by' the Ukrainian military.
A destroyed Russian T-72 tank is pictured on display in Warsaw, Poland, on July 6, 2022. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday that it killed 159 Russian troops overnight and destroyed 60 units of Russian military equipment during its counteroffensive in southern Ukraine.The Ukrainian military says that it killed nearly 160 Russian troops after launching missile and artillery strikes as part of its massive counteroffensive in southern Ukraine.
Vladyslav Nazarov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Operational Command South , said on Tuesday that an estimated 159 Russian soldiers had been killed and 60 units of equipment were destroyed overnight. Over 220 missile and artillery attacks, on targets that included three bridges, were reportedly launched by Ukraine around the same time.by OCS said that the Russian equipment destroyed included five T-72 tanks, three Msta-B howitzers, 5 anti-tank missile systems, an S-300 surface-to-air missile system, an electronic warfare station and radar station, a 120 mm mobile mortar system and 40 units of armored and automotive equipment.
OCS reported that the situation in southern Ukraine"remains difficult" but was"controlled by" the Ukrainian military. Ukraine warned that the threat of missile attacks from a Russian fleet stationed in the Black Sea was still"relevant." Nazarov said that a Russian missile attack on Mykolaiv's Bashtansky district had resulted in no casualties, while artillery strikes on the Nikopol district in Dnipropetrovsk had caused damage to residential buildings and injured one civilian.
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