Ukraine: Ukraine says it is blocking Russian offensive – Times of India

Kyiv: Ukraine’s military says a Russian offensive on a broad front in the country’s east is halted amid human and material losses inflicted by Kyiv forces.
General Staff of the Armed Forces Ukraine said in a Facebook post on Sunday that Russian troops were trying to advance into Sloboda, Donetsk and Tauride areas, but were being held back by Ukrainian forces who continue to fight from village to village.
Separately, Ukrainian intelligence officials accused Russian forces of destroying medical infrastructure, taking equipment and denying medical care to residents in several occupied cities and towns.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry claims that ventilators and other equipment provided by international donors and Ukraine’s government since 2014 were removed from the hospital. starobilsk In the eastern Luhansk region of Ukraine.
The same post alleges that tuberculosis patients were denied medical care Kharkiv In area Volchansk While several facilities were used to treat wounded Russian soldiers.
The accuracy of the claims could not be immediately verified.
Ukrainian officials also said on Sunday that Internet and cellular communications had been cut in a large Russian-held area. Kherson area and part of zapsorizia Blamed the region and the Russian army.
London-based Internet Monitor netblocks The Kherson region has lost 75 per cent internet connectivity since Saturday evening.