According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, two blocks were captured in the north-west and south-east of the city, which has been mostly destroyed by the hostilities.
Russia announced on Sunday that Wagner mercenary units backed by airborne units of the regular army captured two more blocks in the eastern city of Bakhmut, where the bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine has been raging since last summer.
Wagner’s mercenaries are spearheading Russia’s attempt to take over Bahamut. According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, two blocks were captured in the north-west and south-east of the city, which has been mostly destroyed by the hostilities.
Paratrooper units are helping Wagner by holding back Ukrainian forces from flanking her units, the same source said.
Kyiv did not comment on the information.
According to Serhiy Tserevaty, a representative of the command of the Ukrainian army in the eastern part of the country, Wagner’s units are acting like a battering ram, attacking dozens of times a day.
“The enemy continues to attack our positions with devilish zeal,” he told the Ukrainian Parliament TV station.
On Friday, the British Ministry of Defense acknowledged that Ukrainian troops had been forced to withdraw from sectors of the city.
Earlier yesterday, the Ukrainian General Staff reported that 45 attacks in Bakhmut and Marinka were repelled, assuring that the situation on the fronts is unchanged and that “the enemy is suffering heavy losses.”
Russian shelling killed two teenagers on Easter Sunday in Mykolayiv, according to Vitaly Kim, a military commander. In the Zaporizhia region, a local military official, Yuriy Malashko, spoke of a “massive” Russian attack that damaged a church, among others, judging that “nothing is sacred” for the opposing side.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian media reported yesterday that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, called for an end to the war, which the Kremlin dubbed a “special military operation”.
Mr Prigozhin, 61, is reported to have said that the “ideal” would be “to announce the end of the special military operation and say that Russia has achieved all the goals it had set, and in one sense we have achieved them”, warning that “there is a risk that the situation on the front will worsen when the (Ukrainian) counterattack takes place”.
Neither Moscow nor Kiev have officially commented on the placement.
Source :Skai
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