Both Russia and Ukraine have endured losses believed to be in the thousands, though neither has disclosed casualty numbers. It isn’t clear which side has paid a higher price in the battle for Bakhmut. Russian forces will still face the massive task of seizing the remaining part of the Donetsk region still under Ukrainian control, including several heavily fortified areas. He spoke flanked by about a half dozen fighters, with ruined buildings in the background and explosions heard in the distance.įighting has raged in and around Bakhmut for more than eight months. In a video posted earlier on Telegram, Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said the city came under complete Russian control at about midday Saturday. Russian state news agencies cited the Kremlin’s press service as saying President Vladimir Putin “congratulates the Wagner assault detachments, as well as all servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces units, who provided them with the necessary support and flank protection, on the completion of the operation to liberate Artyomovsk.” Using the city’s Soviet-era name, the Russian ministry said, “In the Artyomovsk tactical direction, the assault teams of the Wagner private military company with the support of artillery and aviation of the southern battlegroup has completed the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk.” The eight-month battle for the city in eastern Ukraine is the longest and probably most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities at that time said fighting for Bakhmut was continuing. The Russian ministry statement on the Telegram channel came about eight hours after a similar claim by Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin. “For today, Bakhmut is only in our hearts,” he said. Speaking alongside President Joe Biden at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Zelensky said he believed the city had fallen, but added: “You have to understand that there is nothing,” saying of the Russians, “They destroyed everything.” KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Bakhmut was “only in our hearts,” hours after Russia’s defense ministry reported that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, had seized the city in eastern Ukraine. “Kyiv stood up again and will stand up in the future!” Popko said. In the often-targeted Shevchenkivskyi district of central Kyiv debris was found on a road. He said that according to preliminary information there were no casualties in the attack that was carried out with cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea region.įalling debris fell on a house in the Holosiivskyi district in the southwest of Kyiv, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said on his Telegram messaging channel, adding there were no casualties or much damage. “(They) try to kill as many civilians as possible - on this day,” Popko said. It also came on Russia’s Victory Day, one its most commemorated public holidays, marking the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Tuesday’s attacks - the fifth in May - came a day after Russia launched its biggest drone swarm yet in a renewed air campaign unleashed 10 days ago after a lull since early March. “As at the front, the plans of the aggressor failed,” Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv’s city military administration, said in comments posted on the Telegram messaging app. KYIV: Russia launched about 15 cruise missiles at Ukraine’s capital on Tuesday, the second attack in as many days, with air defense systems shooting all of them down, officials said, after air raid alerts blared over most of the country.
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