At a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, they discussed the situation at the front and instructed to strengthen Ukraine's border with Belarus. Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the success in the south.
On Friday, June 30, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyі held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and instructed to strengthen the northern border of Ukraine. He reported this in Telegram, where he emphasized that the situation in Belarus is "under constant control."
"The decision of the Stavka - chief Zaluzhny and commander of "North" Naev - to implement a set of measures to strengthen this direction," the president said.
In addition, the meeting discussed the situation at the front, "moving forward" and strengthening the operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with additional artillery systems and shells.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces announced the successes in the south
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on the afternoon of June 30 that Ukrainian units had achieved partial success and were gaining ground in several directions in the Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions. In particular, they are continuing their offensive in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, the message on Facebook emphasizes.
"On the Levadne - Priyutne, Mala Tokmachka - Ocheretuvate directions, they had partial success, they are entrenched on the achieved lines. The enemy is suffering significant losses. On the Pryvilly - Zaliznyanskyi direction, our soldiers also had partial success, they are entrenched on the achieved lines," - notes the Ukrainian General Staff. In addition, according to his data, the Armed Forces continue to put pressure on the enemy on the flanks of Bakhmut and knock them out of captured positions.
The Armed Forces are advancing in the direction of Bakhmut
In turn, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyar announced on the air of the Ukrainian telethon about the confident advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the flanks around Bakhmut. "We did not enter the city itself. We now control the southwestern outskirts of the city. But the main battles are around. There is an offensive in several directions. This is an advance in all directions in which we are moving. At the same time, the enemy has drawn a large number of forces there," - she noted.
According to Malyar, in the south of Ukraine, the leveling of the front and consolidation of the Armed Forces at the necessary boundaries continues. "In the south, we move with varying degrees of success: somewhere more than a kilometer, somewhere less, somewhere up to two kilometers - in different ways," added the representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
