2023-05-13 01:07:46
Ukraine announced on the 12th that the Ukrainian army had made a breakthrough in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. In this regard, the Russian army admitted that it had retreated north of the city of Bakhmut, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Russian mercenary group “Wagner Group”, criticized it as a “routine”.
Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that Ukraine used more than 1,000 soldiers and as many as 40 combat vehicles to launch an offensive in the north of Bakhmut. largest offensive in months.
Konashenkov said Russian forces had repelled 26 attacks, but troops in one area had retreated to regroup in more favorable positions near the Berkhivka reservoir, northwest of Bakhmut.
“Unfortunately, what Konashenkov describes is a ‘routine’, not a regrouping,” said Prigozin, leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
In another video, Prigozin said the Ukrainians had seized the heights overlooking Bakhmut and opened up the main highway into the city from the west.
He stated that “the loss of the Belkhovka reservoir, in the territory they gave up today, is 5 square kilometers. The enemy has completely broken through the Chasiv Yar-Bakhmut road that we blocked. The enemy forces are now able to use this road, and secondly , they have taken the tactical heights of Bakhmut.”
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