The Russian Ministry of Defense affirmed this Sunday that the mercenaries of the Wagner Group seized another four blocks on the streets of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, so that so far the Moscow troops have significantly displaced the Ukrainian Armed Forces. kyiv has recognized that the Russian advance is crucial in the fight for Bakhmut.
Russian General Igor Konashenkov, Defense spokesman, stated that Russian aviation and artillery punished the Ukrainian positions in the northern and southern suburbs of the city. “The assault units continue to expel the enemy from the western part of the city and have taken four blocks,” explained the general and defense spokesman.
Given this, Wagner’s chief, Yevgueni Prigozhin, assured that his detachments had advanced some 100-150 meters in the last hours, so that “there are 2.98 square kilometers of territory” to be conquered.
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, said last week that his country cannot give up Bakhmut, where his troops are barely resisting the attacks of Wagner’s Russian mercenaries, a battle on which both the start and the success of the war depend. Ukrainian counteroffensive about to start. the Ministry of Defense in Russia recorded that his troops took seventeen blocks in the last two weeks of the Battle of Bakhmut. According to the ranks of Moscow, 80% of the city in eastern Ukraine is under the orders of the Wagner group.
The Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Malyar, acknowledged that the Russian Army is making very significant advances in the battle for the city of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, for which she pointed out that these advances have existed due to the tactics of the mercenary group. Wagner that are used in Syria. “We cannot give up Bakhmut, as this would contribute to expanding the front and would allow Russian troops and the Wagners to capture more territory,” Zelensky said Monday on local Ukrainian television.
With information from EFE
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