While Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin says his troops have taken Bakhmut, there is no indication from Ukrainian officials that the town had fallen into Russian hands.
KYIV, Ukraine – Fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut remained “particularly hot,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, giving no indication the city had finally fallen to Russia as claimed by the founder of the Wagner mercenary force.
But there was no indication from Ukrainian officials that Bakhmut, a town of 70,000 before the Russian invasion launched over a year ago, had fallen into Russian hands.“Thank you to our soldiers who are fighting in Avdiivka, Maryinka, and Bakhmut,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Sunday. “Especially Bakhmut. It is especially hot there.”
“The enemy is attacking the city center from the north, the east and the south and is trying to take the city under its full control,” Zhdanov, who has close ties to the Ukrainian military, said in a video shown on YouTube.in a Saint Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year in what it calls a “special military operation”, claiming Kyiv’s ties to the West were a security threat. Since then, tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers on both sides have been killed. Russia has destroyed Ukrainian cities and set millions of people to flight. It claims to have annexed nearly a fifth of Ukraine.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a call on Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said Washington should not politicize the case.
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