Kiev, captured high ground around Bakhmut
Ukrainian forces have re-captured the high ground around Bakhmut and are successfully encircling Russian troops in the city. The Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine told the Guardian Hanna Painteralso speaking of the “nightmarish” situation that is taking place further north, in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv oblast, where the authorities have given orders to evacuate 12,000 civilians from 37 inhabited centres.
“The main focus of the Ukrainian army is the south, while the Russians are concentrated in the east. The Russians are infiltrating in two main areas: Kupyansk and Lyman, it is a real nightmare there. In the north Bakhmut direction the Russians attack. We attack Bakhmut’s southern flank. Why are the Russians doing this? – Maliar wonders – It’s because we’re making good progress on Bakhmut’s two flanks, where we’ve taken practically all the high ground. The Russians are trapped, they can’t get out and move around the city because the Ukrainians bomb them from the air”.
“To draw our forces away from Bakhmut, the Russians have advanced in other directions”, continues Maliar, according to whom the Russians have “exposed their rear at Bakhmut and are “launching offensives in other places to stop our attack on Bakhmut”.
2023-08-10 18:32:08
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