Moscow statement is first admission that Ukraine is successfully recapturing ground around eastern city
Russia’s defence ministry has said some of its troops have fallen back “to more advantageous defensive positions” near a reservoir north-west of the city of Bakhmut in easternThe statement on Friday was the first admission by Moscow that Ukraine was successfully recapturing ground around Bakhmut, a largely destroyed city with a pre-war population of about 70,000 thatThe Russian defence statement came hours after Kyiv said that its forces had advanced by about 2km around Bakhmut this week.
“Ukraine is much stronger now than last year or in any other year of this war for freedom and independence of our country,” the Ukrainian president said in a separateZelenskiy said that he held a phone call with Rishi Sunak in which he thanked the UK for delivering the Storm Shadow missiles and “other irreplaceable military assistance”.The Russian defence ministry said it had repelled a surge of attempted Ukrainian attacks against its positions in eastern Ukraine.
“There was no tactical retreat … What happened was the outright flight of units of the ministry of defence from the flanks,” Prigozhin said, in a characteristic video outburst directed at the country’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu.
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