What occurs within the city?
• It is one of the districts that Moscow announced, following referendums in September that Kyiv and the West branded as a mockery; • imported a significant target for the Russian army in its gradual progress in the Donetsk region.
• According to the Ukrainian army, there is a very bloody battle taking place there with Russian soldiers.
City Vice President Olksander Martinko told Reuters that the Russian forces are trying to “storm the city from several directions”, and the agency was not able to independently verify this description of what is going on in the fighting field.
Martinko, speaking while surrounded by mortar grenades from the surrounding area and inside a government building, said, “With every day, the survival in this city becomes more and more difficult.”
More than 120 civilians have died in Bakhmout since the start of the Russian armed invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he continued.
He continued: “There are neighborhoods that we do not know the exact number of deaths in them because of the continued cohesion fighting, or because the population areas are subject to temporary occupation (by the Russian forces).
While stating that Ukrainian forces “arrest the front line steadily,” Martinko also spoke of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the city, whose population has dropped from 12,000 to 12,000 since the beginning of the conflict.
Less than two months ago, the city was without water, gas, and electricity.
Martinko claimed that despite the authorities’ requests for them to leave, the people still wander outside to shop, get water, or receive humanitarian help.
Elderly people would find the winter challenging, he continued, adding, “We are firm and we hope that the Ukrainian military forces can remove the enemy more from the city.
The “tough” escape in the Ukrainian city of Battoum
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