Ukraine said it repelled an attack in the region of Blagodatne – Svyat

AT The armed forces of Ukraine said that Ukrainian forces today repelled an attack in the Blagodatne region in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, and the Russian private military company “Wagner” said that it had established control over the village, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.

“Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers

in the area of… Grace… in Donetsk region,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its daily morning briefing. It added that its forces repelled Russian attacks in the areas of 13 other settlements in Donetsk region.

The “Wagner” group, designated by the United States as a transnational criminal organization, stated last night in “Telegram” that its units had established control over Blagodatne.

Reuters says it has not been able to confirm the information from either side from independent sources. As fighting in Donetsk region intensifies, the exact position of the frontline is unclear, particularly in the area around the city of Bakhmut, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting since the start of the war in recent weeks.

Ukraine has said that the Russian offensive around Bakhmut has not reached its climax,

but the situation on the front line there is increasingly difficult. The governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kirilenko, said in his Telegram message that four civilians were killed, one of them in Bakhmut, and 17 were injured in the Russian attacks in the region yesterday.

Top photo: Houses damaged by shelling in Bakhmut, Ukraine, January 12, 2023.