Russian forces still assaulting the city but its defenders are holding out, military says
Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary force, speaks in a video message that was allegedly filmed near the city administration building in Bakhmut, Ukraine, in this still image from an undated video filmed through a night vision device and released on April 3 2023. Picture: CONCORD PRESS SERVICE/HANDOUT via REUTERS
The battle for Bakhmut has been one of the bloodiest of the conflict, now in its second year, with many casualties on both sides and much of the eastern city destroyed by bombardments. Front lines have shifted backwards and forwards in street-by-street fighting. They attached [the flagpole] to the side of who knows what, hung their rag and said they had captured the city. Well good, let them think they’ve taken it.Serhiy Cherevatiy, spokesperson for the eastern military command, said the Russian claim was false. Clashes were taking place around the city council building, he said. “Bakhmut is Ukrainian and they have not captured anything and are very far from doing that, to put it mildly,” he said.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said fighting had engulfed the centre of Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces repelled 25 enemy attacks but Russian forces captured the Azom metal plant, he said. “The enemy is attacking the city centre from the north, the east and the south and is trying to take the city under its full control,” Zhdanov said in a video on YouTube.
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