Rivnopil is the ninth settlement in southeastern Ukraine that Kyiv says it has seized during the ongoing counteroffensive.
in the two regions. Rivnopil is not far from several of these villages, such as Storozheve and Makarivka.could not independently verify battlefield claims and has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.
Ukrainian soldiers walk in the newly liberated village on June 10, 2023 in Blahodatne, Ukraine."Defense forces returned Rivnopil under our control," Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on Monday.In an earlier post to social media on Monday, Maliar said Ukrainian forces had taken back 130 square kilometers of territory in the south of the war-torn country since the counteroffensive began.
A separate statement posted by Ukraine's Military Media Center, which coordinates updates from Kyiv's Defense Ministry, said on Monday that between June 19 and June 25, Ukraine had destroyed 34 tanks. This comes in lower than figures published by Ukraine's General Staff in its daily updates. Between Monday June 19 and Sunday June 25, the General Staff said Russian forces had lost 46 tanks.was a"staggering figure" that was likely accurate. However, this count probably includes some armored vehicles as well as tanks, analysts said.losses, Russia has lost 2,061 tanks, as of Monday.
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