Kyiv said Sunday it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.
An empty street and buildings damaged by a Russian military strike can be seen in the frontline city of Bakhmut, Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/ Oleksandr Ratushniak, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.determined to take the city that has turned into a political prize as the battle drags on.
There is fighting in and around the city, the US-based Institute for the Study of War said, warning that Ukrainian supply routes were narrowing. Wagner, a private army headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has taken center stage in the fight for the city, which has exposed rivalries with Russia's conventional forces.
The ministry said Sergei Shoigu inspected an advance command post in the South Donetsk direction without specifying exactly where or when.The ISW think tank said Shoigu went there "likely to assess the extent of Russian losses around Vugledar and the possibility of a further offensive in this direction." While the epicenter of the fighting is in the east of Ukraine, the death toll from a strike this week on an apartment block in southern Zaporizhzhia has now risen to 13.
Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for shelling around the plant and the International Atomic Energy Agency posted observers there.
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