The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said on Friday his troops had taken Berkhovka, north of Bakhmut, a key city Moscow has been trying to capture for months.
“[Berkhovka] is completely under our control,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement.
Ukrainian forces have responded to about 90 Russian attacks in the past 24 hours, targeting areas in northeastern and eastern Ukraine, Kiev military authorities announced on Thursday.
This is what the General Staff of the Ukrainian army has said The Russian offensive is concentrated in the northeastern region of Kharkov and the neighboring regions of Lugansk and Donetsk to the east, both on the border with Russia.
In the strategic city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army said fighting continues “from street to street” as control of the area would allow each side to have a safe passageway for the transportation of weapons and soldiers.
Russia launched its war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022 with a full-scale invasion, after concentrating thousands of troops along its border with the neighboring country.
The number of civilian and military casualties is unknown, but several sources, including the UN, have admitted it will be significantly high.
At the end of September, Russia formalized in internal law the annexation of the regions of Kherson, Zaporijia, Donetsk and Lugansk, after doing the same in 2014, with Crimea.
Neither Kyiv nor the wider international community recognizes Russian authority in the five annexed regions.
Source: DN
