The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskystated this Sunday that, according to the information he manages, Ukrainian forces still maintain some control over the town of Bakhmutalthough he indicated that the town is completely destroyed.
“I don’t think so”responded the Ukrainian president in reference to a question during the G7 summit about whether the Russian forces, as indicated in the last few hours by the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhinand the Russian president, Vladimir PutinThey had taken control of the city.
“Nothing remains. Day by day, Bakhmut It is only in our hearts,” he said in statements sent by the White House press service during the meeting Zelensky had with the president of the United States, Joe Bidenat the summit of Hiroshima (Japan).
He added that the soldiers in his army have done “a great job” and thanked them for their work.
Also, the Ukrainian Army in its last operational evaluation this Sunday, continues without losing the city. “In the Bakhmut axis the enemy continues with its offensive operations and the fighting for the city is still going on”, according to the balance published this Sunday morning on the website of the Army General Staff ukrainian.
The head of the Wagner group had advanced this Saturday that Bakhmut had been conquered by Russian forces in a statement immediately denied by the Ukrainian Army.
Yevgeny Prigozhinin a message to Russian state broadcaster VGTRKindicated that his mercenaries intend to completely transfer control of Bakhmut to the Russian regular forces “for the next 25 of May”.
Late this Saturday, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin congratulated the Army and the group of Russian mercenaries for the supposed capture of the Ukrainian cityand praised the support provided and the flank coverage provided by the troops of the Russian Armed Forces to Wagner’s assault groups, according to the Kremlin press service quoted by the Russian chain RBK.
Putin’s announcement about the seizure of Bakhmut an operation that has lasted more than nine months, coincided with the anniversary of the conquest of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to the news channel Rossiya 24.
Mariupol, in the southeast of Ukraine and on the shores of the Azov Sea, was the scene of intense fighting during the early stages of the war until it finally fell into the hands of Russian troops in combat that caused the death of at least 25,000 peopleaccording to Ukrainian authorities.
During the meeting this Sunday with Zelensky, the US president Joe Biden announced the delivery of a new weapons package for Ukraine, which is expected to launch soon a great counteroffensive to try to recover the territories occupied by Russia in the south and east of the country.
The package will include ammunition, artillery and armored vehicles, detailed Biden himself, who recently gave his go-ahead for his allies to hand over Kiev soon. F-16 fighters.
Biden said that “The United States continues to help Ukraine respond, recover, and rebuild. We are also supporting peace”.
(With information from Europa Press and AFP)
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