Russia now controls most of the eastern areas in Bakhmut’s front line, but Ukraine is effectively impeding the advance of Moscow’s troops, according to the UK MoD.
Most of the Russian assault groups in Bakhmut consist of fighters from the private military company Wagner, reinforced by paratroopers, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The Russian rocket attack on Zaporizhia in eastern Ukraine yesterday afternoon damaged an industrial plant and a gas pipeline. No casualties were reported. The raids also caused a fire in one of the neighborhoods. According to preliminary information, the prosecutor said the attack was carried out with S-300 surface-to-air missiles.
Ukrainian helicopters on a high-risk mission near Bakhmut, so they’re planning the counteroffensive
Engineers restored power to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after massive Russian bombing this week, but 15,000 people in the surrounding areas are still without power. “Since the beginning of this year alone, more than 40 enemy missiles have hit Kharkiv in less than two and a half months,” Zelenskyy said.
Russia has captured some of the US-NATO-supplied weapons left on the battlefield in Ukraine and sent them to Iran, where the US believes Tehran will try to reverse engineer the systems, sources tell CNN.
Wagner boss Prigozhin will run for president of Ukraine in 2024
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is proposing to call Russia back by the name of the medieval principality before the Moscow Empire. Medvedev replies, “We will call you the filthy Bandera Empire,” with a clear reference to Stepan Bandera, the protagonist of 20th-century Ukrainian nationalism.
Russian media “in Bakhmut” show the city in ruins, littered with dead soldiers
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Kiev special forces destroy Russian watchtowers
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Kiev special forces destroy Russian watchtowers
The Kraken special unit of Ukraine’s military intelligence has announced that it has destroyed two military towers in Murom in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, near the border with Ukraine. This was reported by The Kyiv Independent.