Moscow (EFE).- Ukrainian troops are trying to resist in the western part of Bakhmut, Artiomovsk for the Russians, as recognized on Tuesday by the interim leader appointed by Moscow in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Denís Pushilin.
“Artyomovsk: already in the western part, behind the railway lines, the enemy remains,” Pushilin told Solovyov Live television channel.
This Monday Pushilin assured that Russian troops control “more than 75 percent” of Bakhmut, but admitted that fierce fighting is taking place in the west of the city.
He added that Russian troops are also advancing on the Avdiivka front, located a few kilometers from Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed people’s republic of the same name.
According to Pushilin, the objective of the Russian soldiers is to push the Ukrainian forces away enough to ensure the safety of Donetsk and prevent it from being attacked from Avdiivka.
For his part, a Ukrainian military expert has assured EFE that the Ukrainian troops defending the city of Bakhmut have managed to move the Russian forces away from the road that the Ukrainian army needs to continue receiving reinforcements and supplies.
The expert has also assured that Russia continues to deploy additional units in Bakhmut to deal with the large number of casualties it is suffering in its attempt to gain full control of this city in eastern Ukraine, where they resided before the war began. about 70,000 people.
Egypt and the Kremlin deny that Al Sisi ordered the production of weapons for Russia
In Egypt, an official source on Tuesday denied to the Egyptian television channel Al Qahera News that President Abdelfatah al Sisi ordered his government officials to produce more than 40,000 rockets to send to Russia, as indicated by the documents leaked to the American newspaper The Washington Post.
The classified documents to which the newspaper had access and which were published on the social platform Discord show a series of conversations between the Egyptian president and government officials about the possible sale of arms to Russia.
The Kremlin described as a “hoax” the information about Egypt’s alleged plans to supply missiles to Russia, which comes a few days after a series of leaks on Twitter and Telegram of original documents in the possession of the Pentagon with data on deliveries. of arms to Ukraine and references to the capabilities of Ukrainian battalions.