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Hope is reborn for Bakhmout. While the fall of the city to the Russians, epicenter of the fighting for months, was announced, Ukraine claimed Monday the “first success” of its assault. It progresses on the flanks of the Russian defenses. For several days, the Ukrainian army has said that it has been advancing north and south of Bakhmout, the scene of the bloodiest battle since the start of the Russian invasion.
“The advance of our troops in the Bakhmout area is the first success of the offensive” aimed at defending this city, now mainly controlled by the Russians, General Oleksandre Syrsky, the commander of Ukrainian ground troops, said on Monday. . On Sunday, kyiv had already sworn to have captured “more than 10 enemy positions north and south of the suburbs of Bakhmout”, after claiming on Friday to have recaptured two kilometers in the area.
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Britain aspires to lead the countries that continue to flood Ukraine with armaments”
Western support for Ukraine continues to piss off Moscow. New British arms deliveries will cause “even more destruction”, the Kremlin has warned. The spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, estimated that these deliveries will have “no significant impact on the course” of the conflict, but “will cause even more destruction”. “We see this very negatively,” he added.
Volodymyr Zelensky has indeed obtained from the United Kingdom the commitment of an early delivery of anti-aircraft missiles and attack drones, and said he was “optimistic” about the supply of combat planes that he claims from Westerners against the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian leader has been asking his Western allies for months to provide him with such planes which would allow the Ukrainian army to strike Russian troops in depth, without however constituting a miracle solution in the conflict.
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2. Like the number of military planes, French and German, that Russia claims to have intercepted over the Baltic Sea. “After the foreign military planes turned around (…), the Russian fighter returned safely to the airfield,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram. According to the ministry, the two devices in question are a P-3C Orion patrol boat from the German navy and an Atlantique 2 anti-submarine surveillance device from the French navy. The Russian border was not violated, he said.
“The flight of the Russian fighter took place in strict compliance with international rules for the use of airspace over neutral waters without crossing air routes and coming dangerously close to a foreign aircraft”, added assured the Russian ministry. Incidents involving Russian planes and aircraft from NATO countries have multiplied in recent years, even before the start of the conflict.
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Bakhmout always. This city coveted by the Russian army is at the center of discussions. The American Daily washington post reported on Sunday that the head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner has repeatedly offered Ukrainian intelligence to provide him with information on the location of Russian army units, in exchange for the withdrawal of Kiev forces from Bakhmout. The day after the publication of this information, Yevgeny Prigojine described them as “laughable”.
These claims, which cannot be independently verified, come at a time when Yevgeny Prigojine and the Russian general staff are at loggerheads, against the backdrop of rivalries within Moscow’s forces in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. “It seems that I am fighting for Russia, but at the same time Zelensky is following my instructions. So the left hand is at war with the right hand,” responded Yevgeny Prigojine ironically.