Because “that no part of Ukraine can be abandoned” to the Russians, Volodymyr Zelensky asks his military commanders to do everything to defend Bakhmout, the epicenter of the fighting in the east of the country. “I told the staff to find the appropriate forces to help the guys”, said the Ukrainian president in his daily video, Monday, March 6. Follow our live.
“Continue to defend” Bakhmout. There is a “consensus among the military on the need to continue to defend this city of some 70,000 inhabitants before the war. According to Mykhaïlo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, “the defense of Bakhmout has achieved its objectives” by exhausting the Russian forces, giving the Ukrainian army time to train “tens of thousands of troops to prepare a counter-offensive”.
A new Commander-in-Chief in Ukraine. By decree of President Zelensky issued on Monday, theGeneral Oleksandr Oleksiyovych has been appointed Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armies. He was previously Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
kyiv calls for an investigation into the alleged execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy demands an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the broadcast of a video showing, according to him, a Ukrainian prisoner of war executed by Russian soldiers. “Horrifying video of an unarmed Ukrainian POW being executed by Russian forces for simply saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’. Further proof that this war is genocidal”commented Dmytro Kouleba on Twitter.