A spokesman for Ukrainian forces, said the situation was 'difficult but under control'
KYIV SAID TODAY that it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.
There is fighting in an around the city, the US-based Institute for the Study of War said, warning that with Ukrainian supply routes were narrowing. Rivalries Pro-russian separatists in the Donetsk region posted a video purporting to show Wagner fighters in the suburbs north of Bakhmut, having taken control over the Stupki railway station.
Prigozhin regularly posts videos of himself alongside mercenaries, on the ground or even in a fighter jet, in contrast with Russian generals criticised for shirking the frontline. Zaporizhzhia ‘hostage’ While the epicentre of the fighting is in the east of Ukraine, the death toll from a strike this week on an apartment block in southern Zaporizhzhia has now risen to 13.
Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for shelling around the plant and the International Atomic Energy Agency posted observers there.
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