The best defense is attack? Saluting “the real heroes” defending the city of Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine, the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Oleksandre Syrsky, said on Saturday March 11 that he wanted “gain time to accumulate reserves and launch a counter-offensive, which is not far away”. Follow our live.
The Wagner group says it is progressing in Bakhmout. Yevgeny Prigojine, the boss of the Russian paramilitary group, claimed yesterday a new progression of his men. He said he was 1.2 km from the “administrative center of the city”, in a video uploaded by its press service. According to the British government, the Wagner group has “taken control of most of the east” of Bakhmout.
kyiv evokes a resistance “complicated”. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanichyna concedes that he “becomes complicated for us to resist and deter” the Russian army in Bakhmout. “The human mass of its infantry is a formidable weapon, it seems inexhaustible in volume and in time”she said in The Sunday Journal (paid article).
Moscow is targeting other regions. Moscow’s forces continue their attacks in other regions. On Saturday, Ukrainian authorities announced that a strike had killed at least three people and injured two in Kherson, a southern city liberated by the Kiev army in November after several months of occupation.