The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the start of Ukraine’s long-expected counteroffensive as Kiev’s forces recently launched an unsuccessful attempt to break through the Russian front-line in Donbass.
“Ukrainian forces have attacked the Russian troops along five sections of the front-line in Donbass during their ‘large-scale offensive’, the Russian Defense Ministry said in the early hours of Monday.
According to the MOD, the assault began on Sunday morning. ‘The enemy’s goal was to breach our defenses in what they assumed was the most vulnerable section of the front-line’, the ministry said in a statement.
‘The enemy has failed to reach its goals and was unsuccessful’, the ministry stated.
The MOD said that Ukraine had deployed the 23rd and the 31st mechanized brigade from its ‘strategic reserves’, which were supported in battle by other units.
‘The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 250 service members, 16 tanks, three infantry vehicles, and 21 armored vehicles’, the MOD said.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Kiev was ready to launch its long-planned counteroffensive and that the military could not wait ‘for months’. The deputy head of his office, Igor Zhovkva, however, said the same day that his country had still not received enough weapons and ammunition to mount a successful campaign.
Kiev has recently stepped up the artillery and drone attacks on Russian cities, including a UAV raid on Moscow last week.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday evening that the troops had repelled an armed incursion into the Belgorod Region, which shares a border with Ukraine.
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and the ‘Freedom of Russia’ Legion – two pro-Kiev groups made up of fighters with neo-Nazi background – claimed responsibility for that attack and similar forays into Russian territory that took place throughout this spring”. -RT
If the Ukrainians had successfully breached the Russian defenses, it would indicate that we may be entering into phase two of the opening scene of a Third World War.
And, if it is decided that the United States military will get actively involved in a direct war against Moscow, there is probably going to be at least one very deadly false flag attack, on American soil, that will more than likely get blamed on the Russians.
After all, it’d be in keeping with the method that has been implemented to drag the U.S. into foreign entanglements since the Spanish-American war back in the nineteenth century with the sinking of the USS Maine.