Russian President Vladimir Putin called the “catastrophic” losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a counterattack, which, according to the Russian leader, has continued on June 4.
“This is a large -scale counterattack using, as I said recently publicly prepared for these purposes of reserves. It has been going on from the 4th, it still continues right now,” the politician said at a meeting with military correspondents.
According to him, the enemy was not successful in any of the sites. “They have big losses,” the president said.
In addition, the President of the Russian Federation also called the “serious” losses of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. “As for armored vehicles, there are even more serious, they lost over 160 tanks and over 360 armored vehicles of various types during this time,” Putin explained.
According to him, when reflecting the Ukrainian counterattack of the Russian Federation, the Russian Federation lost 54 tanks, some of which are subject to restoration. The proportion between the killed and wounded in the structure of loss of the Armed Forces during the counterattack is 50/50, the president is sure.
In addition, the Russian leader claims that Polish mercenaries are fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Polish mercenaries are really fighting there, you are right, I absolutely agree with you. And they suffer heavy losses. They, however, hide them, but the losses are serious,” said the Russian leader.
Further, the president said that Russia, if shelling of its regions continued, will consider the creation of a “sanitary zone” in Ukraine. “The ability to fire our territory from the territory of Ukraine, of course, remains. There are several ways to solve: firstly, increasing the efficiency of the counter-battery struggle. But this does not mean that the so-called arrivals will not be in our territory. And if it continues, then we are, then we Apparently, we will have to consider the issue, I say this very carefully to create a sanitary zone on the territory of Ukraine at such a distance from which it would be impossible to get our territory, ”the president said.
Vladimir Putin also suggested that it was the Ukrainian side that is guilty of the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. “Who is guilty is understandable. The Ukrainian side strove for this. I will not say one hundred percent things in which I am not sure, so by and large we did not fix large explosions before destruction occurred. In any case, as they reported to me But they deliberately Himars beat repeatedly along the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station, that’s the matter, ”said the head of state.
According to him, “maybe they had some kind of laying,” but “maybe they once again added insignificant and destroyed.” We are definitely not interested in this, because these are heavy The consequences for those territories that we control and which are Russian, ”the president summed up.