Ukraine denies that the city has already been captured. And Russian military bloggers also report ongoing resistance.
the bloody ones Battles for the Ukrainian city solder in Donetsk region continue. “More than 100 Russians are in the area at once solder sent to hell,” the Ukrainian military leadership said in Kyiv on Thursday. Thanks to coordinated cooperation, the Ukrainian armed forces killed more than 100 Russian fighters and destroyed their equipment, it said. Ukraine had previously rejected Russian claims that solder was already taken.
In its morning situation report, the Ukrainian general staff reported that Russian forces had attacked solder and suffered heavy casualties on supply lines. In the report published on Facebook, tanks and artillery were in space solder mentioned. According to Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, 559 civilians are still holding out in the small town. Among them are 15 children. Because of the fierce fighting, it was impossible to evacuate them. Russia is preparing forces for new offensives in the Bakhmut area, a strategically important city in the region that has been hotly contested for months, according to the General Staff.
Kremlin: “Positive Dynamics”
The Kremlin in Moscow had spoken of “positive dynamics”, but declared an official confirmation of the taking of solder wait and see The head of the Russian paramilitary organization “Wagner“, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on the other hand, claimed that the city had already been conquered. The civilians had been brought out and 500 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed. At the same time, he stated that the area was still being “cleansed” of the remnants of the Ukrainian army. That’s how it should be Ukrainian soldiers holed up in the pits of the salt mines.
The private “Wagner” group led by Prigozhin repeatedly claims decisive combat successes alongside the Russian military. Russian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces still captured parts of the western parts of the city solder controlled and “desperately” defended them. The aim is to break the resistance completely on Thursday. Before the war, 10,500 people lived in the town in eastern Ukraine.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Selenskyj The city doesn’t want to give up. “The front in the Donetsk region is holding,” he said in his video speech on Wednesday evening. “Fighting continues and we are doing everything we can to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses.”
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