Fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut remained ‘particularly hot,’ President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, giving no indication the city had finally fallen to Russia as claimed by the founder of the Wagner mercenary force
Ukrainian officials say defenders still fightingBlinken urges Lavrov to release US reporter
"From a legal point of view, Bakhmut has been taken. The enemy is concentrated in the western parts," Prigozhin said in an audio message posted on his press service's Telegram account on Sunday. Prominent Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said fighting had engulfed the centre of Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces had repelled 25 enemy attacks, but Russian forces had captured the AZOM metal plant, which Ukrainian troops had defended for days.
It was not immediately known who was behind the killing. Wagner's Prigozhin said he would "not blame the Kyiv regime" for it, but another leading Russian official pointed the finger at Ukraine, without providing evidence.NUCLEAR THREAT U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a call on Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said Washington should not politicise the case.
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