Russia's Wagner mercenary group appeared on Sunday to ditch plans to withdraw from Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, saying they had been promised more arms by Moscow and suggesting they may keep up their assault on what Russia sees as a stepping stone to other cities in the Donbas region.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian and Russian media reported explosions across Russian-occupied Crimea, and Russia's defence ministry said its air defences had detected and destroyed 22 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea overnight.
Russian officials have repeatedly sought to allay concerns that their forces on the front line have not received adequate supplies. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday, referring to the Russian army as a whole, that they had "received the sufficient amount of ammunition" to effectively inflict damage on enemy forces.
"Four hundred eighty-nine artillery strikes over the past 24 hours in the area around Bakhmut – is that an ammunition hunger?” Ukrainian troops have been pushed back in recent weeks but have clung on in the city to inflict as many Russian losses as possible ahead of Kyiv's planned big push against the invading forces along the 1,000-kilometre front line.The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that Russian forces were evacuating residents from the town that serves the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told local television on Sunday morning that six of those missiles had been fired at Ukraine overnight but none had hit its target.
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