The leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner said that his troops have started receiving the ammunition needed for their advance to capture the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
"Fierce fighting is underway, but the groups continue to advance. According to preliminary data, we are starting to receive ammunition. We have not seen this in practice yet," Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an audio message published on social networks, Reuters reports.
Prigozhin stated that Ukrainian forces are limited to an area of about 2,36 square kilometers in the city.
Bakhmut has been under Russian attack for more than nine months, and Wagner has led repeated attempts to advance on what was once a town of 70.000.
Prigogine last week threatened to withdraw his forces if they did not receive the necessary ammunition, but later retracted the threat.
(Free Europe)
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Russia launched a large wave of devastating missile strikes on targets in Kiev and across Ukraine, Ukrainian officials announced this morning.
Russian missile strikes in Odesa caused a fire in a food warehouse, and explosions were reported in several other Ukrainian regions, reports Reuters.
Kyiv city authorities announced that at least five people were wounded during the Russian missile strikes, and according to mayor Vitaly Klitschko, three people were injured in explosions in Kyiv's Solomyan district, and two more when the wreckage of a drone fell in the Sviatoshin district, west of the center of the capital. .
The Supreme Command of the Ukrainian Army announced today that Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 35 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia overnight at various targets across the country.
"The armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out 16 missile strikes last night, especially in the cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, in Mykolaiv and Odesa regions," the daily announcement of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces states, noting that a total of 61 airstrikes and 52 attacks from heavy rockets were carried out. system.
An explosion resounded in Odesa this evening after a rocket attack on that city on the Black Sea, while warnings of air danger were sounded in Kiev and other areas, according to Ukrainian officials.
The spokesman of the Odesa military administration, Sergiy Bratchuk, stated on Telegram that an "enemy rocket attack" was carried out on that city, reports Reuters.
The military administration of Kyiv stated on Telegram that air defense is active on the outskirts of Kyiv and called on citizens to stay in shelters until the air threat warning is turned off.
Ukrainian television reported that a fire broke out after the explosion in Odessa, and that explosions were heard in Kherson.
Reuters has not confirmed these allegations.
Russia has intensified its shelling of Bakhmut in the hope of capturing it by tomorrow, Victory Day, said the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Sirsky.
He emphasized that Ukraine will do everything to prevent this, reports Reuters.
Sirski, after visiting Ukrainian troops along the front line in Bakhmut, said that Russian forces have increased the intensity of shelling in that area from heavy weapons.
"Now they started using more modern equipment and regrouping the troops," said Sirski.
Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine, has been fighting fiercely for months between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
(MINE)
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