NYPOST – “Hostilities have intensified significantly,” Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Wednesday — but claimed that Moscow’s forces were successfully repelling the Ukrainians’ onslaught. Putin praised the “heroism” of his troops fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region, saying that the Russian forces inflicted heavy losses and that Kyiv’s push “wasn’t successful.” Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that its troops had beat back Ukrainian attacks around the village of Klishchiivka near Bakhmut, and north of the town of Robotyne on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian state news agency TASS reported. However, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on her Telegram channel that Ukrainian forces were “gradually moving forward.”
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