Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, released a video on Thursday showing Ukrainian forces attacking and destroying Russian units near Bakhmut.
The caption of the video posted on the Telegram messaging application says that you can see the activities of the 225th Kharkiv Battalion in the Bakhmut area.
Ukraine’s military said on Thursday that it had succeeded new territorial advances in intense fighting around the eastern city, despite being outgunned and outnumbered by Russian forces.
Last week, kyiv said he increased the pressure on the troops of Moscow north and south of Bakhmut. Russian mercenary forces, the wagner groupThey say they have made progress inside the city, where kyiv has acknowledged that they have made little progress.
However, they affirm that given the advances on the flanks of the city, the paramilitaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin they will be trapped as “rats in a mousetrap”.
The head of the militiamen himself has repeatedly criticized the Russian regular troops for abandoning positions and leaving their units exposed, focused on taking what remains of the city.
“I am addressing the leadership of the Ministry of Defense publicly, because they do not read my letters: please, do not hand over the flanks, do not hand over the town of Sacco and Vanzetti. Hold on as you can at least several days. Do everything that depends on you so that the flanks do not collapse, ”he stated on his Telegram channel.
Moscow considers that Bakhmut is a stepping stone towards the capture of the rest of the eastern region of Donbas. The city had about 70,000 inhabitants before the large-scale invasion of Russia almost 15 months ago, but now it looks semi-destroyed and abandoned.
Ukrainian officials have noted that the advances around Bakhmut are not part of a broader counteroffensive planned by kyiv to push back Russian forces.
However, they have invested a great deal of their resources in not abandoning the enclave, and now they consider that they can deliver a major blow if they manage to hold the enclave. momentum recovering important land at the cost of losses in the invading troops.
(With information from Reuters)
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