Attacks on Bakhmut come as aggressors try to encircle the city
Ukrainian service members are seen at an empty street, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the frontline city of Bakhmut on February 27 2023. Picture: REUTERS/Alex Babenko
Reuters was able to reach Bakhmut from the west on Monday, proof that the city was not yet surrounded despite Russian forces pressing from north and south to close the last routes in. In an audio message on social media, Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner private army has led Russia’s offensive there, said the Ukrainian military was throwing extra reserves into the battle, “trying to hold the town with all their strength”.
Wagner received an apparent show of Kremlin support on Wednesday when Russia’s rubber-stamp lower house of parliament, the State Duma, discussed extending censorship laws to include a 15-year jail sentence for those who discredit “volunteer formations”. “So, did you manage to freeze us? Happy first day of Ukrainian spring!” tweeted Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security council.
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