KYIV, June 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops are advancing in all directions of their counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, a senior defence official said on Friday.
Since the start of the counteroffensive this month, Ukraine says it has reasserted control over clusters of villages in the southeast although Russia still holds swathes of territory in the east, south and southeast.
In the south, Kyiv's forces were moving with mixed success and mainly levelling the frontline, she said.
President Voldoymyr Zelenskiy has described the counteroffensive as proceeding more slowly than desired, but that Kyiv would not be pressured into speeding it up.
Ukrainian officials have also said the "main event" of the counteroffensive has yet to start, and that Ukraine has not yet sent its main troop reserves into combat.
Persons:
Hanna Maliar, Maliar, Voldoymyr Zelenskiy, Anna Pruchnicka, Timothy
Organizations:
Reuters, Timothy Heritage, Thomson
Locations:
Russian, Ukraine, Russia, Bakhmut, Kyiv