Zelenskyy visits frontline near Bakhmut following night of missile and drone attacks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited military positions near the frontline town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine as a Russian strike battered a residential building, injuring dozens.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR Zelenskyy has visited military positions near the frontline town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine as a Russian strike battered a residential building, injuring dozens.

“I am honoured to be here today to award our heroes. To shake hands and thank them for protecting the sovereignty of our country.” Kyiv says the battle for the industrial town, which had a pre-war population of around 80,000 people, is key to holding back Russian forces along the entire eastern front.

Soldiers taking a break from the front were sheltering in cellars, while one soldier smoked near a block of flats. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which claims to be spearheading Moscow’s offensive for the city, said this week that his forces control some 70% of Bakhmut.

“Everything began to crumble and fall, and then I had to somehow go downstairs… There is no apartment, no balcony, nothing. The fire reached our apartment,” he said.

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