Shoigu announced the significant losses of Ukraine and the regrouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukraine has suffered significant losses over the past 16 days and has begun regrouping, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.

“After conducting active hostilities over the past 16 days, having suffered significant losses, the enemy has reduced its activity, and is currently regrouping,” the minister said (quote according to TASS).

June 21 Russian President Vladimir Putin declaredthat the active phase of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was replaced by a certain lull, due to serious losses on the Ukrainian side. According to him, the soldiers of the Russian army have already destroyed 245 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 678 armored vehicles of various types. Among them, in particular, there are German Leopards, as well as American and French armored vehicles.

On the same day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledgedthat the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is going “slower than we would like.” He explained that the difficulty in the offensive is the territory mined by the Russian army – according to his estimates, this is about 200,000 square meters. km.

On June 20, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters that the United States initially realized that the UAF counteroffensive would be difficult, but considered sufficient stocks of Western weapons to carry out the offensive. Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar, in turn, reportedthat the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive are faced with the “frantic” resistance of the Russian Armed Forces, and in some areas it is the Russian side that conducts offensive operations.