Russia claims to be gaining ground near the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, inflicting multiple casualties and driving Ukrainian troops back up to three kilometers into a wooded area in the Lugansk province.
kyiv denies this and claims that it has repelled Russian attacks on several fronts. The Ukrainian military report on the Luhansk region said: “Over the past day, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by the occupiers in the Nevsky, Kreminna and Bilohorivka districts.”
Bakhmut citizens leave their homes
Even so, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky acknowledges that both armies are waging a battle of attrition in the fight for every meter of Donbass. Something that has forced citizens to leave Bajmut in a minibus.
Lubov, a resident of Chasiv Yar, confesses: “The shelling scares us, we have to go. I want to see my granddaughter who lives where we are going, in Lviv. We hope that the Ukrainian army will fight for us and defeat the Russians. As soon as it happens , we will be back”.
“The situation at the front, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, remains extremely difficult. It is literally fighting for every meter of Ukrainian land,” Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said in his daily address.
According to Zelensky, each day of resistance in “Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Mariinka and other cities and towns in Donbas reduces the time of Russian aggression by weeks.”
Swedish PM ensures arms shipment to Ukraine
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson promised to send archer howitzers as well as 51 infantry fighting vehicles and anti-tank weapons to Ukraine during his visit to Kiev on Wednesday.
Kristersson, in a press conference together with Zelensky, did not specify when the weapons will arrive, since this military aid would have to be balanced against Sweden’s own defense needs and for “practical reasons as well, in terms of training and things like that.” “.
Meanwhile, in the city of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, three civilians were killed and around a dozen others injured after a Russian shelling of a 5-story apartment block.
Source: Euronews Español
