Pressure has been mounting on Ukrainian troops trying to hold the town against Russian soldiers hoping to capture it no matter the cost.
THE HEAD OF Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has said that his forces had taken “all the eastern part” of Bakhmut, the east Ukrainian town where fighting has raged for weeks.
“Wagner units have taken all the eastern part of Bakhmut, all that’s east of the Bakhmutka river” that bisects the town, Wagner chief and Kremlin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an audio message released by his press service. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the army was intent on defending Bakhmut but warned the Russian army would have an “open road” into eastern Ukraine if it captured the town.
The battle for Bakhmut, a salt-mining town with a population of 80,000 before the fighting began, has been the longest and bloodiest in Russia’s operation, which has devastated swathes of Ukraine and displaced millions over the past year.
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