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Russia claims to have taken control of the city of Bahmut, Ukraine is silent

2023-05-22 10:14:32Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Russia claims to have taken control of the city of Bahmut, Ukraine is silent
The war in Ukraine

Ukraine said on Sunday that its forces were continuing to advance on the outskirts of Bakhmut, with the aim of encircling the devastated city in eastern Ukraine. This came after Russia congratulated Wagner's private army and Russian troops for capturing the city.

On Saturday, Russia claimed to have taken full control of Bahmut. If verified, it would mark the end of the longest and most violent battle in the 15-month conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his troops and the Wagner group.

Despite acknowledging that the part of Bahmut under Ukrainian control was relatively small, a senior Ukrainian general said that control would allow them to enter the city once circumstances changed.

In a Telegram post, General Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that Kiev troops were advancing on the outskirts, approaching a "tactical encirclement" of the city, which was previously home to 70,000 residents.

On Sunday, General Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said he had personally visited front-line positions near Bahmut, where intense fighting had continued for more than nine months.

His statement about the continued advance of Ukrainian forces along the outskirts of the city was confirmed by Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar.

"Our forces have taken the city in a semi-encirclement, which gives us the opportunity to destroy the enemy... the enemy must defend itself in the part of the city that it controls," Maliar said on Telegram.

According to her, Ukrainian troops were actively protecting industrial and infrastructure installations and had secured control over several elevated positions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russian offensive near Bahmut continued unabated in the past 24 hours, including airstrikes targeting the town and village of Ivanivske on its western outskirts.

In an audio message on Telegram on Sunday evening, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced that his group's work was finished and his forces would withdraw from the conflict zone within a few days.

"The Wagner group has not gained any territory today. We have controlled the entire territory that we promised to conquer, down to the smallest detail," declared Prigozhin. "As it was said yesterday, we are submitting our positions to the Ministry of Defense (of Russia), and on May 25 we will withdraw from the conflict zone," he said.

Military analysts maintain that Bahmuti is of no significant strategic importance, despite Moscow's claim that its capture would serve as a gateway to further advances in the industrial Donbas region, which Russia claims to have annexed from Ukraine.

Reuters news agency said reports from neither side on the battlefield could be confirmed.

Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have made their fastest advance in six months on both the northern and southern sides of Bakhmut, prompting Russia to concede some obstacles to its troops.

Kiwi says his aim has been to draw Russian forces from elsewhere on the front into the city, to weaken Moscow's defensive line elsewhere ahead of a planned major counteroffensive by the Ukrainian military.

The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, stated that Russia had suffered more than 100,000 casualties in Bakhmut, a city that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared to the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima during World War II.

“I will tell you frankly: the pictures of the destroyed Hiroshima absolutely remind me of Bahmut and other similar settlements. "Nothing is left alive, all the buildings have been destroyed," he said during the Group of Seven summit in the Japanese city on Sunday.

"Bahmuti has not been captured by the Russian Federation until today. There are not two or three interpretations of this," he told reporters.

The capture of Bakhmut - which Russia refers to by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk - would represent Moscow's first major victory since the conflict over the city began more than 10 months ago.

Leaders of the world's richest democracies at the G7 summit said they will not back down from supporting Ukraine.

Zelensky, who held a private meeting with US President Biden in Hiroshima, said he was confident Kiev would receive F-16 fighter jets from the West. /REL


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