The Russian Defense Ministry has declared the destruction of 8 LEOPARD tanks, but there is one detail
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claim that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their offensive in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions. At the same time, the department declares "significant losses" of the Armed Forces. According to the statement, the total losses of the Ukrainian side in the South Donetsk direction amounted to more than one and a half thousand people, 28 tanks (including eight German Leopard and three French AMH-10) and 109 combat armored vehicles.
Representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that on June 4, the Ukrainian army launched a large -scale offensive in the South Donetsk direction, but the Russian armed forces allegedly successfully repelled the attacks. On June 5, according to the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces continued the offensive, focusing on the main efforts on the Wremiv speech of the South Donetsk direction.
The military department also mentioned the offensive in the state farm "October" and in the area of Novodonetsky. However, the Ministry of Federation did not provide any evidence of information about the destruction of tanks or success in the display of a alleged counter -offensive. It should be noted that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has repeatedly happened to lie about the alleged success of the Russian army in Ukraine.
Yes, in May, the Russians announced the interception of the British rocket Storm Shadow. However, the British media questioned this information. British analyst Sean Bell pointed to previous cases where the Russian side made false statements about the possibilities of its air defense. And in April this year, in the defense department, the old aggressor stated that one of the sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation allegedly captured the German Tank Leopard 2.
However, the Russians stated that they could not bend it and allegedly drowned in the swamp. However, no photos or videos confirming the capture of the tank were provided. Earlier, on March 28, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Air Defense forces had been intercepted by "one managed Glsdb jet projectile". However, there are no official information that such ammunition has already been armed with the Armed Forces.
According to Western media, such ammunition can only be transmitted by the end of this year, so Ukrainian defenders could not apply them. Earlier, on March 3, the first deputy post -post of the Russian Federation at the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy disagreed on Tiwtter a fake photo with an allegedly captured Leopard 2A5 in Bakhmut, but later he deleted this message.
It should be noted that all these reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation combines one detail - the lack of evidence confirming the successes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. We will remind, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, on June 5 reported that Kiev was carefully and "with some surprise" according to Russia's statements that the Armed Forces began a large -scale offensive near the carbon.