KYIV: Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that had resisted Russian assaults since Moscow's full-scale invasion, the regional governor of Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Tuesday (Oct 1).
Ukrainian servicemen of the 26th artillery brigade fire an AHS Krab self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions near the front line in the Chasiv Yar area in the Donetsk region on Sep 30, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine . KYIV: Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that had resisted Russian assaults since Moscow's full-scale invasion, the regional governor of Ukraine 's Donetsk region said on Tuesday .
"The enemy is already nearly in the centre of the city," regional governor Vadym Filashkin told Ukrainian TV, describing the situation as very difficult. Previous Russian assaults on Vuhledar had been particularly bloody, with tanks and armoured vehicles assaulting over open ground. Ukrainian military units released pictures on Tuesday of Russian tanks on fire in fields.
Full control over Vuhledar would help Moscow's troops in their further advance in the region, giving them positions on heights to fire artillery. Filashkin said that about 350,000 people still remained in the government-held parts of the region. Before the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, government-held areas held about 1.9 million people.
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