KYIV: Kyiv said Sunday (Mar 5) it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months. Ukraine has vowed to defend 'fortress Bakhmut' but it has faced Russian troops determined to take the
KYIV: Kyiv said Sunday it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.
Sergiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for Ukrainian forces, said on Saturday the situation was"difficult but under control" in the city he described as a"priority target for the enemy".There is fighting in an around the city, the US-based Institute for the Study of War said, warning that with Ukrainian supply routes were narrowing.
Wagner, a private army headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has taken centre stage in the fight for the city, which has exposed rivalries with Russia's conventional forces. Zaporizhzhia is one of the four regions - along with Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson - that Russia claims to have annexed but never fully controlled.The plant has repeatedly made headlines and revived fears of nuclear catastrophes similar to the deadly Chernobyl disaster that shook Ukraine in 1986.
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