Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, during a telephone conversation with the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Mark Milley, said that the Ukrainian Defense Forces are launching a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv and Izyum directions, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reports on Facebook.

" In particular, about moving the main efforts of the enemy to the Luhansk direction, where fierce battles continue in the area of \u200b\u200bPopasnaya, Kremennaya and Torskoye, as well as the transition of the Ukrainian defense forces to counter-offensive operations in the Kharkiv and Izyum directions,"

Zaluzhny also said that the Russian Federation resumed the use of cruise missiles by the Russian aggressor..

The main goal of these actions is to destroy the logistics routes for the supply of military-technical assistance to Ukraine.

" On May 4, 8 launches of cruise missiles were recorded on our territory. Therefore, the issue of providing Ukraine with M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS multiple launch rocket systems is very relevant,"

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Thanks to the successful actions of the Ukrainian defenders and defenders, the enemy lost control over several settlements on the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.