On Saturday, the Ukrainian military attempted but failed to launch an attack near the hamlet of Berkhivka in the Bakhmut region of the Donetsk People's Republic, according to a source in the command of Russia's South group of soldiers.

The source explained that "Airborne troops stopped the enemy in the gray zone … As a result of the battle, more than 200 Ukrainian military personnel, five tanks, eight infantry fighting vehicles, and more than 10 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed."
 
According to the report, the onslaught included roughly 300 men, six tanks, and ten armored fighting vehicles.

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Yesterday, an informed official told famed journalist Hersh that "it would take [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky's military 117 years" to reassert Kiev's power over the lands which Russia now controls; which is approximately a surface area of 40,000 square miles.

Hersh urged US President Joe Biden to finally acknowledge, publicly, that “the estimated more than $150 billion that his administration has put up [to arming Ukraine] thus far turned out to be a very bad investment,” before adding that the “looming disaster in Ukraine… should be a wake-up call” for lawmakers in Washington who continue to seek to offer Kiev billions of dollars “in the hope of a miracle that will not arrive.”

Previously, in an interview with George Galloway on Mother of All Talk Shows (MOATS), the Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist said Ukraine's counteroffensive will not bring any good to Kiev, the United States, or NATO.