Ukraine announced Monday that its armed forces liberated more than three square kilometers near the city of Bakhmut in the Russian-occupied eastern province of Donetsk in the past week.
With the recovery of this area of the territory occupied until now, the Ukrainian forces liberated a total of 43 square kilometers in the immediate vicinity of Bakhmut, announced the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Maliar, quoted by an official Army channel on the messaging platform. Telegram. .
Maliar also added that the Ukrainian advance continued on the southern flank of Bakhmut, whose capture had been proclaimed by Russia in May, after more than half a year of attacks on the city led by the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
Source: TSF
