Fighting continues for control of the city of Bakhmout in eastern Ukraine, the scene of heavy fighting since last summer. The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigojine, claimed on Tuesday that his men had seized “more than 80%” of the city.
On Tuesday, Russia launched large-scale military maneuvers in its Arctic waters. The exercises involve 1,800 soldiers, more than a dozen ships and 40 planes and helicopters. According to the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet, the exercises are aimed at protecting “the security of Russian merchant shipping and sea lanes such as the Northern Sea Route“. The maneuver should last several days.
In Russia precisely, a new discovery illustrates the fate of the fighters engaged in the Wagner militia, real cannon fodder of the Kremlin. Mass graves containing the bodies of soldiers from the paramilitary group have been discovered by residents in different parts of the country, reports the BBC. Many of them would be those of prisoners who chose to fight in Ukraine in exchange for a reduced sentence. This kind of improvised graves would be commonplace without the families of the deceased being informed. From then on, the latter try to locate the corpse of their deceased relative in order to bury it near them.
The leak of classified documents from the United States also continues to be talked regarding. According to a document released to the public, US intelligence has doubts regarding a potential Ukrainian counter-offensive that might only achieve “modest territorial gains” once morest Russian forces, the Washington Post.
