After Zelenskyj’s visit to the front
Moscow reports killing of 50 Ukrainian officers
06/19/2022, 03:06 p.m
The Russian military claims to have killed more than 50 generals of the Ukrainian army, who operate in the Mykolaiv region, among other places, in one fell swoop. From there, President Zelenskyj has just returned to Kyiv. There is no confirmation so far.
According to the Russian military, a missile attack destroyed a command post of the Ukrainian armed forces with high-ranking officers. “The strike killed more than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including general staff officers and the command staff of unit ‘Kakhovka’, airborne troops and units operating in the Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia regions,” said the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov.
According to Konashenkov, the Ukrainian command command post in the Dnepropetrovsk region near the settlement of Shyroka Dacha, south of the city of Kryvyi Rih, was hit by sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles. The missiles are said to have a range of up to 2500 kilometers.
In addition, several Western artillery systems of the type M777 and up to 20 armored vehicles on a factory site in Mykolaiv were destroyed by the “Kalibr” missiles. Other missiles hit a railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region, where Ukrainian military were being loaded. In addition, a larger Ukrainian unit was also fired at with rockets in the Donetsk region.
Selenskyj on a visit to the front in southern Ukraine
Konashenkov put the Ukrainian losses in the latter two cases at more than 300 soldiers. This information cannot be verified independently. The army spokesman also announced that the village of Metjolkine had been taken over completely by Russian troops. The Ukrainian general staff had previously acknowledged a partial Russian success in the fighting for the suburb of the administrative center Sievjerodonetsk.
Only on Saturday did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj pay a visit to the Ukrainian troops in the Mykolaiv region. In a video speech on Sunday night, he promised to recapture occupied areas in the south.
“We will not give anyone the south. We will take back everything that belongs to us,” Zelenskyj said in the speech. Ukraine will also restore safe access to the sea, he assured. The Ukrainians have more will to live than Russia has missiles, Zelensky said.