Head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group claims its fighters are gaining ground in Donetsk
“For several days in a row, the [Russians] attacked our positions in both the Kreminna area and the Bilohorivka area. Our defenders responded by routing the enemy ... [who] have retreated to replenish their units.Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council, said Russia was “having big problems with its big offensive”.
In its latest intelligence update on the war, the British ministry of defence cited Ukrainian claims that Russian forces suffered an average of 824 casualties per day over the past week – the highest such rate of the war. The figures cannot be verified, however, and Moscow also claims that Kyiv’s military is suffering extremely heavy losses.
Moscow’s military has focused in recent weeks on overrunning Bakhmut and the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk region, but despite repeated Russian claims that success was imminent, both towns are still in Ukrainian hands.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the powerful Wagner group, claimed on Sunday that its fighters had taken control of village of Krasna Hora, just north of Bakhmut, and that no other Russian forces were within a radius of about 50km of the ruined city.
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