Bakhmut is ‘only in our hearts,’ Zelensky says at G-7, after Russia claims control
at the Group of Seven summit in Japan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to suggest that Ukraine was no longer in control of the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut and that there was nothing left there.told reporters, when asked whether Bakhmut was still in Ukraine’s hands, after the Russians said they had taken control.Bakhmut is “just dead and a lot of dead Russians,” Zelensky told reporters in Hiroshima.
Zelensky and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had their first face-to-face meeting since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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