“Extremely fierce fighting” is taking place “near Bakhmout,” a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region that has been a priority target for the Russian military for months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday.
“The situation on the front line is not undergoing significant changes. Extremely fierce fighting is taking place in the Donetsk region, near Bakhmout and Avdiivka,” he said in his daily address posted on social media.
On Monday, seven civilians were killed and three others wounded in Bakhmout, according to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Fighting between the Ukrainian and Russian armies is raging there, with Moscow’s troops desperate for success after several setbacks since early September.
“Russian Commando Madness”
“The Russian occupiers have already lost so much equipment, aviation and other, that most of the world’s armies simply do not have and will never have in service,” Volodymyr Zelensky also assured.
According to him, “Russia will not be able to compensate for these losses.”
Finally, he again denounced “the madness of the Russian command”, particularly “visible according to him” in the east of the country by “sending people to death (…) day after day”.
Source: BFM TV
