While Bakhmut is of questionable military strategic value, the city has taken on huge symbolic importance in Russia's invasion. Taking control of Bakhmut by this date," she said. Historic myth is 9 May and they really have set the objective of "The Russians are inclined towards symbolism and their key Kyiv is expected to launch a counter-offensive in the coming weeks in an attempt to push Russian forces in the east and south. She said Ukrainian forces were not only on the defensive in the city but were also conducting assaults. (them) to the Bakhmut direction," Ms Maliar said. Offensive line where the Wagner fighters were, they are pulling "We are now seeing them pulling (fighters) from the entire In a video earlier today Mr Prigozhin said Wagner would stay in the city until 9 May to avoid shame on the day of the commemoration. It would be a day after the annual event commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Russia is bringing Wagner mercenary fighters from other parts of the frontline to fight in the battle for Bakhmut, which Moscow wants to capture in time for its Victory Day celebrations, a senior Ukrainian official has said.ĭeputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar made the remarks after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said his mercenary forces would pull out of the area on 10 May because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies, as we reported earlier (see 9.45 post). Meanwhile, the Russian-installed governor of the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region has ordered the evacuation of villages close to the frontline, saying Ukrainian shelling had intensified in recent days.Ī widely expected Ukrainian counteroffensive is likely to take place in the region, where Russian forces hold around 80% of the territory. Two villages in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Kherson region were hit four times today by Russian guided bombs, which destroyed a church building and damaged 20 homes, wounding one person, the regional administration said. Kherson, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia last November after eight months of occupation, is regularly bombarded from across the River Dnipro. Small buses and dozens of cars left Kherson today ahead of a 58-hour curfew following a spate of Russian attacks before the Ukrainian counteroffensive. People are leaving the Ukrainian city of Kherson ahead of a curfew and the Russian-installed governor of the Zaporizhzhia region has ordered the evacuation of villages close to the frontline ahead of a widely-expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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