Russian Ministry of Defense Claims Ukrainian Armed Forces Suffered Severe Losses in Failed Offensive

Prigogine said the claims were “simply wild and absurd science fiction”.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces have reached more than 3,000 soldiers.

Russia said the attack was part of Ukraine’s “long-promised offensive” in the Donetsk region on Sunday and Monday.

Ukraine’s military said on June 5 that it had no information about a major attack in the region and that it would not comment on “false” claims.

On the evening of June 5, Prigozhin contested the claims of the Russian Ministry of Defense, saying that such a success would be equivalent to a “massacre”.

“So I think it’s just a wild fantasy,” he wrote on Telegram.

He also accused Russian forces of a “slow” withdrawal from the Bakhmut region, calling it a “disgrace”.

Moscow rejected Prigozhin’s claims, saying his claims “do not correspond to reality” and insisted that the regions in question remain under Moscow’s control.

“Apollo.lv” already reported on Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s claims that over the past three days, the Russian army has thwarted the “long-promised offensive” of the Ukrainian armed forces at various stages of the front.

According to Shoigu, on June 4, the Ukrainian army with the forces of the 23rd and 31st mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to launch an offensive in five directions.

As a result, the enemy did not succeed in any direction and suffered losses: 300 military personnel, 16 tanks, 26 armored fighting vehicles, 14 cars.

Shoigu claims that the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces reached 3,715 soldiers in three days of fighting in all directions. The Russian army also destroyed 52 APU tanks, 207 armored vehicles, five airplanes, two helicopters, 48 ​​field artillery units and 53 drones.

71 Russian soldiers were killed and another 210 were injured during the repulse of the Ukrainian armed forces offensive, added the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Russia has not reported its losses in the war in Ukraine since September 2022.