Ukrainian authorities have banned foreign journalists from the front line because of the high level of casualties among the personnel and the lack of results of the offensive. This is reported by the Swiss edition of Le Temps.
“Being on the front line is now completely forbidden unless, of course, they (journalists) have written authorisation from the commander-in-chief of the (Ukrainian) armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny,” Le Temps writes.
The publication notes that the directive to restrict access to the contact line came without prior warnings.
“This is due to the fact that on the battlefield and within the framework of the counter-offensive, which began in early June, the fighting is being fought with numerous casualties, and Ukrainian forces have been unable to break through the Russian defence,” the newspaper explains.
Earlier, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Anna Malyar said that Russian forces had launched five airstrikes on the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU within a day after Western media published information about its deployment near the village of Rabotino in Zaporizhzhya Region.
We shall remind you that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian troops began on 4 June. Brigades trained by NATO and armed with Western equipment were thrown to the line of contact. Kiev admitted that the AFU faced problems and it was impossible to achieve quick results. The Ukrainian side’s losses, according to the Russian Defence Ministry, have exceeded 43,000 people since the start of the counter-offensive. According to Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, Ukraine has almost completely exhausted its military resource.
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