Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that Bakhmut is 'no longer a city' on Friday.
, a paramilitary unit fighting in Ukraine, have insisted for weeks that Russian forces have captured Bakhmut, which has been repeatedly denied by Kyiv.
Ukrainian servicemen fire a 105mm Howitzer towards Russian positions near Bakhmut on March 4. Russian forces do not entirely control the decimated Donetsk city of Bakhmut, Ukraine's defense minister said on Friday, denying Russia's repeated claims of having captured the eastern battleground settlement.On Sunday, Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces wrote in apost that Russian fighters continued"offensive operations" in the area.
"The enemy continues to suffer significant losses in the direction of Bakhmut," Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, wrote in a statement on Telegram on Saturday, furthering bolstering the sentiment that the fight for Bakhmut is not over. Kyiv's forces still control Bakhmut, Reznikov said on Friday, but described it as"no longer a city," adding that Russian forces"have wiped out everything."
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