Kyiv [Ukraine], April 28: Ukrainian officers said the Russian military on April 27 tried to cut off key supply routes into the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, thereby putting more pressure on Kyiv's forces.
For the past 10 months, Russian units have been trying to encircle and take control of Bakhmut , a city once home to 70,000 people but now reduced to rubble. Kyiv is determined to defend Bakhmut, which Moscow sees as a springboard to attack other cities in the Donbass region (including Donetsk and Luhansk regions) and beyond.
One of the cities further west, Kostyantynivka, was hit by a Russian missile on April 27. A school, a hospital and residential buildings were damaged, while Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky said people were injured.
SerhiyCherevatyi, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army in the east, told Freedom TV channel that Bakhmut had seen 13 new skirmishes in the past 24 hours.
"The main goal of the enemy in the Bakhmut area is to cut off the lines of communication. But thanks to the constant resistance to artillery fire... we were able to resupply supplies and evacuate the wounded." Reuters quoted him.
TASS news agency quoted a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry on April 27 as saying that they had captured four more urban areas in Bakhmut, and that the paratroopers had provided support to Moscow's forces and restrained the troops. Ukrainian units on the outskirts of the city.
Ukraine's military analyst OleksanderMusiyenko said control over the city's districts is changing rapidly amid fierce fighting.
"Ukraine is successfully conducting local counter-attacks, making it difficult for Russia to capture Bakhmut," Musiyenko told Ukrainian radio station NV.
Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, said he had earlier joked when he announced that his men would stop firing artillery to allow Ukrainian forces to show the city to the public. America Magazine. Wagner was the leading force in Moscow's operation in Bakhmut.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper
