Russia’s Defence Ministry report hushes up loss of Balakliia
YEVHEN KIZILOV – FRIDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:16
The Ministry of Defence of Russia in their daily report on the war in Ukraine made no mention at all of the withdrawal of Russian forces from the city of Balakliia.
Source: daily video address of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation via the Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti
Details: Instead, the representative of the Ministry of Defence talked about the "successes" of the Russian army on Ukrainian land.
He mentioned "hundreds of Ukrainians killed", "tonnes of military equipment destroyed", "ammunition storage depots struck" and even "a HIMARS destroyed".
What he did not mention was the fact that the city of Balakliia, in Kharkiv Oblast, which had been under occupation since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Background:
- On 8 September, the Ukrainian forces published photos and videos from Balakliia, which was under occupation for 6 months.
- In the evening of 8 September, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, officially confirmed the information about the liberation of the city.
- He published a video address by the Ukrainian soldiers from liberated Balakliia, in which they inform the President that "an order was carried out" and "the city of Balakliia is back under control of Ukraine''.
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