Kiev (EFE) , according to the report provided today by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy tries to gain full control of the city and continues to launch assaults,” the note read.
“During the day, units of the (Ukrainian) defense forces repelled 32 enemy attacks in the mentioned front area,” added the report, which also spoke of Russian bombardments against various towns in the area.
The head of the Russian group of Wagner mercenaries, Yevgueni Prigozhin, yesterday proclaimed the “legal” takeover of the city by becoming this private army that leads the Russian offensive in the area with control of the Bakhmut town hall.
Prigozhin himself acknowledged that the Ukrainian troops have not left the city and are concentrated in the western part.
Russia launches 17 drones from the Azov Sea and Ukraine shoots down 14
According to today’s report, Russia has also launched attacks on Avdiivka and Marinka on Tuesday, two other cities on the eastern front that the occupying forces have been trying to take for months
In addition, Russian forces attacked Ukrainian territory last night with 17 Iranian-made kamikaze drones launched “presumably” from the eastern coast of the Azov Sea, and Ukrainian Southern Command air defense shot down 14 of those drones preventing them from hitting their targets.
The Southern Command has reported that 13 of the drones were intercepted over the Odesa province and another over Mykolaiv province, both located in southern Ukraine.
One of the drones caused a fire in a private infrastructure in Odessa. At the moment, it is not known if there have been deaths or injuries.
Azov is an inland sea located within the Black Sea, bordering Ukraine to the west and north, and Russia to the east.
Russia has occupied the entire Ukrainian coast of the Azov Sea, whose main port is the city of Mariupol.
