Russians ‘still haven’t taken control over the city’, says deputy mayor as Ukrainian elite units provide reinforcement
He added: “The city is almost destroyed and there’s not a single building that has remained untouched in this war. There are completely destroyed, districts, buildings and apartment blocks.”
“What we’ve seen from the west and Nato countries is a sort of incremental supply ... It’s dribbled in, rather than coming in in a concentrated way,” he said. “If they’d had the stuff that they need months ago, we probably wouldn’t be where we are now. So this places a real imperative on speeding up the supply, the integration, the logistics support, the training and all the other stuff that needs to be done to give the Ukrainians the tools they need to do the job.
“The enemy does not cease attempts to surround Bakhmut,” said Ukraine’s military command in its morning briefing note on Saturday, adding that over the past day Ukrainian forces had beaten back Russian attacks in the city.
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