In eastern Ukraine, southwest of Bachmut Ukrainian and Russian troops again, according to both warring parties heavy fights delivered. “The attacks were carried out over a width of three kilometers and a depth of 2.6 kilometers,” says the founder of the controversial Ukrainian Azov regiment, Andriy Biletskyj, on Telegram on the night. The territory is completely free of Russian soldiers. At least two companies of the Russian army are said to have been wiped out and prisoners taken.
The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had previously complained that the regular army was retreating on the flank of his units. “They left everything, ran away and exposed the front over a width of almost two kilometers and a depth of five hundred meters,” said the 61-year-old. Three square kilometers of territory had been given up.