![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In another expletive-laden tirade, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said one Russian brigade had abandoned its positions south of Bakhmut, leading to many casualties among his fighters. Wagner units have been pulled back to the eastern city of Bakhmut from other areas where they had combat missions, according to Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar. The battle for Bakhmut: According to the commander of the Ukrainian Land Forces, Ukrainian forces are conducting “effective counterattacks” in the Bakhmut area. Russia-backed authorities have ordered the evacuation of thousands of civilians along the southern front as a Ukrainian counteroffensive looms. Ukraine's military said Wednesday that Russian soldiers are preventing employees of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from evacuating a nearby frontline town with their families. Zaporizhzhia claims: The Russian defense ministry claimed on Wednesday that Russian forces had hit the ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army’s 65th mechanized brigade in the Zaporizhzhia region – an area that has seen a rise in shelling by both sides in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. A senior Russian-appointed official in the occupied part of the region also made the same claim. If you're just now catching up, here's what else you should know: Russian forces claimed earlier Wednesday that they had taken the village of Kamianka, north of Avdiivka, where Ukrainian forces have been surrounded on three sides for several months.įurther south - where observers expect a Ukrainian counteroffensive to be focused - Russian forces are conducting “defensive operations in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions,” and had carried out a number of airstrikes, the General Staff said. Russia has conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in Bakhmut and the Avdiivka and Mariinka areas, with the "fiercest battles" taking place in Bakhmut and Mariinka, according to the Ukrainian military's General Staff. Smoke erupts following a shell explosion in Bakhmut, Ukraine in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on May 7. ![]()
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