Some 3,500 Ukrainian civilians remain in the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, affected by fierce fighting between invading Russian forces and Ukrainian defences, the Donetsk Military Administration said on Thursday.
According to the same source, the Ukrainian authorities are trying to “convince” the 3,500 people who remain in the city that it was inhabited by 84,000 residents before February 24 last year, the date of the start of the second Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Pavlo Kyrylenko of the Donetsk Military Administration, the civilians still in the city care for a total of 32 minors and live permanently in shelters.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that there are ten children who remain in Bakhmut.
Specifically, the situation in the city has not yet been monitored by independent sources.
On March 7, kyiv “ordered” the complete evacuation of the city, where about four thousand civilians were supposed to be at that time.
Russian forces, including fighters hired by the Wagner mercenary company, control part of the city, according to military sources in Moscow and kyiv.
Source: TSF
