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War in Ukraine: Russian troops intensify attacks on the Bakhmut Front [VIDEO]

Ukrainian servicemen of the 68th separate jaeger infantry brigade “Oleksa Dovbush” fired at Russian positions in an unknown location in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. | Fountain: EFE

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This Sunday, Russian forces redoubled their attacks on the town of Bakhmut, an important communications hub in eastern Ukraine that has been the scene of intense fighting for months.

“At the front bahmut the enemy continues to attack our positions,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported today. Ukraine on his Facebook page.

By order Ukraineattempts by Russian troops to advance in this direction were repulsed.

Ukrainian troops resist

“At the moment, there are no signs that the Kiev regime has begun to withdraw its fighters and rescue its depleted units,” he said of the situation in bahmut temporary leader appointed Russia in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine Denis Pushilin in an interview with the official Russian news agency TASS.

He recalled that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his army had no purpose to protect bahmut at “any price” and that he would do so “as long as it is reasonable”.

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The founder of the mercenary company Wagner Group, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that his assault troops had captured the small village of Yakhidne, which is located three kilometers from the center of Bakhmut. In the photo: In Bakhmut, smoke rises from shelling from Russia. | Fountain: AFP

“The word “reasonable” for the enemy can mean anything, including fighting “all Ukrainians to the last,” Pushilin added.

the city is practically surrounded

According to the Russian command, the Ukrainian contingent defending bahmutwhose population before the outbreak of hostilities was about 70,000 inhabitants, is practically surrounded, since the Army Russia He controls the northern, southern, and eastern approaches to the city, while the west is within range of his artillery.

This Saturday, the founder of the Wagner Group mercenary company, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that his assault troops had captured the small village of Yakhidnoye, which is located three kilometers from the city center. bahmut.

However, this point was not confirmed in the daily report proposed by the Ministry of Defense. Russia.

bahmut (Artemovsk, for Russians) is located 55 km northeast of the city of Donetsk and is connected by road to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, the largest cities in the Donetsk region, which are under the control of Ukrainian troops.

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Ukrainian servicemen of the State Border Service are waiting for an order to move to a mortar position at the entrance to the shelter in Bakhmut in the face of the Russian offensive. | Fountain: AFP

Gain time to prepare a counteroffensive

According to the Kyiv government, the resistance of the Ukrainian troops in this sector of the front allows not only to wear down the Russian forces, but also to prepare a counteroffensive.

Deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence Vadym Skibitsky pointed out that in the European spring of this year, the Army Ukraine it will be ready to go on a counteroffensive, which will depend on many factors, including the supply of Western weapons.

One of the aims of the counteroffensive, Skibitsky said in statements compiled today by the digital Ukrayinska Pravda, is to “open a gap on the Russian southern front, between Crimea and Russia continental”.

He emphasized that Ukraine it will not rest until it liberates all the occupied territories, including the Crimean peninsula.

“We will stop only when we restore the country to the borders that were in 1991,” a senior Ukrainian official said.

Drone footage from the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti showing the extent of the destruction in Bakhmut, the site of the longest battle of Moscow's year-long offensive.

Drone footage from the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti showing the extent of the destruction in Bakhmut, the site of the longest battle of Moscow’s year-long offensive. | Fountain: AFP

Ukrainian recovery

Zelensky confirmed today that Ukraine remember as the Day of Resistance to the Russian Occupation of Crimea that peace can be restored with the return to Ukrainians of this peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.

“Nine years ago, Russian aggression began in Crimea. If we return Crimea, we will restore peace. This is our land. Our people. Our history. We will return the Ukrainian flag to all corners Ukraine”Zelensky wrote in a message on Telegram.

On February 26, 2014, pro-Russians and pro-Ukrainians gathered near the parliament building of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Simferopol for a rally that ended in clashes in which two people died and about thirty were injured.

Twenty days later, March 18, Russia the peninsula was annexed.

(As reported by EFE)

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