A Ukrainian military command spokesman said the situation was difficult in Bakhmut and that Russian forces were concentrating all efforts to take the city but were not having ‘strategic success’
Russian forces have very likely seized the centre of the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian forces to the west, British intelligence said on Friday.
Friday’s daily update from British military intelligence contrasted with the usual emphasis on Ukrainian successes. “The situation is difficult, the enemy is concentrating maximum efforts to capture Bakhmut. However it is suffering serious losses and not reaching strategic success,” Cherevatyi said by telephone, without elaborating.
Zelensky, who has portrayed “Fortress Bakhmut” as a symbol of defiance, told CNN last month that he feared Russian forces would have “an open road” to the two cities if they took Bakhmut, and said his order to hold it was a tactical decision. Millions of Ukrainians have fled the conflict, which has laid waste to many towns and cities and killed thousands of civilians.
Alexei Moskalyov, a Russian man who was charged with discrediting the country’s army after his daughter drew an anti-war picture, is being held in Belarus, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported, citing the Russian embassy in the country. Belarus is a close ally of Russia.
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