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Ukraine fired shells and rockets on the frontline near Russian-occupied Donetsk on Wednesday (June 21) as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted as saying progress in Ukraine's counteroffensive was “slower than desired.“ The defence ministry says it has reclaimed eight villages in the south-east so far in its long-awaited counter-offensive, its first substantial gains on the battlefield for seven months. Near Donetsk, Ukrainian servicemen of the 59th separate motorised infantry brigade said they had lots of targets and that Russian troops were “very active.“ “This morning we fired about twenty shells in one hour. Well, everything depends on how our enemy crawls in. If they are actively creeping in, we are actively working,“ 35-year-old soldier nicknamed 'Dok' told Reuters. 'The grey one,' a 59-year-old soldier monitoring the battlefield for his Grad Multiple launch rocket system on a tablet, said his unit hat hit a “group of
