The Russian troops in front of the town sign of Krasna Hora. CONCORD PRESS SERVICE / Portal
CARDS – The Wagner militia demanded the capture of a village north of the city of Donbass. A fortress that would allow him to surround the city from the north.
The Russian army, and particularly Wagner’s auxiliaries, continue to orbit Bakhmout, a town in Donbass in eastern Ukraine that had a pre-war population of 70,000. Evguéni Prigojine, leader of the Russian paramilitary group, on Sunday called for the capture of Krasna Hora, a village north of Bakhmout (population 600 before the war). Above all, this admittedly modest conquest made it possible to consolidate the Russian grip on the besieged city, asserting itself on the M03 road, which connected the front with Sloviansk, 60 kilometers behind. The Ukrainian Army has only one road left through Chromove (map below).
Denis Pushilin, self-proclaimed leader of the breakaway Donetsk republic, claimed on Friday that Russian forces controlled three of Ukraine’s four supply routes. For its part, Kiev acknowledges a “complicated situation” north of Bachmout. “Bakhmout is served by two main routes, the T0504 south (see map above) and the M03 to…
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