There will be mixed messages about the front in Ukraine on Friday night. Moscow feels compelled to come out and deny that Ukrainian forces have penetrated Russian positions.

• Ukraine thinks so The Russians are terrifiedbecause they don’t know where the big counterattack will come from.
• Russian military bloggers claim that Ukrainian forces have already penetrated Russian positions.
• Wagner head His name is Yevgeny Prigozhin that the main offensive had already begun and that the situation was critical for the Russian forces.
• Russian Ministry of Defense Rejects messages About Ukrainian penetrations.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that the main counterattack has yet to begin.
• Kiev claims that it managed to push the Russian forces back two kilometers near Bakhmut.

The situation is so dire that the Russian Defense Ministry felt compelled to issue a press release late Thursday evening:

– The statements circulated on various Telegram channels about breakthroughs on different parts of the front do not correspond to reality, as the Russian Defense Command claims, which was reproduced by Ria.

Moscow claims to control the entire “special military operation” front.

– The panic of the Russians is obvious and lies in the fact that they do not know in which direction they can expect the maximum counterattack, and therefore they are making efforts. The spokeswoman for the Defense of Ukraine, Natalya Gomenyuk, claims in the direction of Zaporizhia and in the direction of Kherson. Ukraineskaya Pravda.

– We still need some time before we can launch a major offensive, says President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, according to Reuters.

Thus Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin claims that Ukraine has already launched a long-announced counteroffensive. He believes they have clear plans once the battle at Bakhmut is over.

– They will launch an offensive against Bryansk and Belgorod, as well as Zaporizhia, Prigozhin says. Bryansk and Belgorod are two Russian provinces on the Ukrainian border.

Some of the same claims come late Thursday night from controversial Igor Girkin on his own Telegram channel. A Dutch court sentenced Gerken to life in prison for his role in the 2014 downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine, killing 298 people.

In the Ukrainian media, it is very significant that on Thursday the British Minister of Defense confirmed that the country is sending long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine.

And in the video that he presented to the Ukrainians on Friday evening, Zelensky thanked a number of parts of the armed forces for their efforts against the occupying power. It is believed that Russia was once considered the second most powerful army in the world, but that list is now being whittled down thanks to the efforts of Ukraine’s defense, according to reports. union.