Heaviest fighting is taking place around the eastern city of Bakhmut, still in Ukrainian hands amid a months-long battle
Russia said on Monday its troops had pushed forward a few kilometres along the frontlines in Ukraine, while Kyiv said its forces had repelled Russian attacks in several areas.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said Russian troops had managed to advance 2 km to the west in four days. However, it did not say which part of the long frontline, encompassing several Ukrainian regions in the south and east, had moved. Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, said on Sunday the mercenary force had taken the village of Krasna Hora, on the northern edge of Bakhmut. Wagner has for months spearheaded the assault on Bakhmut, making small but steady gains.
The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said on Saturday Ukrainian troops held their defence along the frontline in Donetsk and in some areas have managed to regain previously lost positions.
Putin’s forces failed in an early bid to capture the capital and the conflict has since become a grinding war of attrition that has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians and left whole cities in ruins.
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