Para 1: MOSCOW, July 6. /TASS/. The first stage of Ukraine’s counteroffensive has yielded no serious results except for the loss of manpower and numerous combat vehicles supplied to the Kiev regime by NATO countries, Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Acting Head Denis Pushilin said on Wednesday.
"The notorious, ‘very serious,’ counteroffensive, at least its first stage, has yielded practically no result, but for a lot of destroyed NATO vehicles and enormous losses in manpower," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
Pushilin did not rule out, however, that Ukrainian troops may take more provocative actions ahead of the NATO summit on July 11-12.
Para 4: "I am sure that all kinds of provocative actions can be expected from Ukraine. We see that the [NATO] summit’s price is very high for Ukraine because some important decisions may be made. <…> They [Ukraine] need to demonstrate something before the summit, so, we think that they will resort to false flag attacks. They don’t care for people, that is why, regrettably, this cannot be ruled out," Pushilin stressed.