Bakhmout about to fall into Russian hands?

Facing the camera, in a video sent to Telegram, the leader of the Russian militia Wagner warned the Ukrainian president. “Dear Volodymyr Zelensky, the units of the private military company Wagner practically surrounded Bakhmout (Ukraine). There is only one road left, the noose is tightening”, he said, Friday, March 3. For several months, the Bakhmout region has been the epicenter of fighting in the struggle for Donbass. Ukrainian soldiers attempt to repel Russian offensives.

“The Russians fired about 320 times in an hour”

The Wagner militia has been advancing for several weeks. It surrounded Bakhmout from the north and south, blocking three of the four roads leading to the city. In the heart of the ruins, between two assaults, the Ukrainian soldiers are resting in the basement of a building, while upstairs another soldier is piloting a drone under the noise of the bombardments. The fighting is constant. “Once, I couldn’t even raise my head, and I counted: the Russians fired about 320 times in an hour”says a Ukrainian.