The town of Bakhmout, epicenter of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, is “virtually surrounded” by Russian forces, the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner said on Friday. “There’s only one road left” to get out, Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video posted on Telegram by his press service.
On the Ukrainian ground, at least three people were killed and six others injured in an overnight strike on an apartment building in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, local authorities said Thursday.
The Kremlin on Thursday denounced a “terrorist attack” after Russian authorities claimed to be fighting a group of “saboteurs” Ukrainians infiltrated in the Briansk region, bordering Ukraine. The Ukrainian presidency denounced for its part a “deliberate provocation“. “Conclusions will be drawn at the end of the investigation.“on this alleged incursion into the Bryansk region on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. The authorities will “take steps to prevent such occurrences in the future“, he pointed out.
Ukraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of vulnerable families and residents from Kupyansk and adjacent northeast territories, over fears that Russian forces will retake the city and the eastern front line rail hub.
According to the British Ministry of Defence, Russian defense companies continue to present their products at major international arms fairs, including a tank protection system. But, according to the British, iThere is no evidence that Arena-E systems are fitted to Russia’s own vehicles in Ukraine, where it lost more than 5,000 armored vehicles. This is probably due to the inability of Russian industry to manufacture high-tech systems on a large scale; a problem that is exacerbated by the effect of international sanctions.