Bakhmut still witnesses fierce fighting and street warfare between Russian and Ukrainian forces. The Wagner Group forces continued their attack on the western regions of the city, while its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced that the Russian forces were advancing hundreds of meters daily in the western depth, of which only two kilometers remained to the city to complete full control over it.
He said in a statement today (Wednesday): that the HIMARS missiles that targeted the locations of his forces and the place of residence of the Ukrainian prisoners did not result in deaths or injuries among the soldiers and prisoners, stressing that his forces are continuing to cleanse the city in the areas it controlled.
In Donetsk, the Ukrainian shelling of the city continued at a low rate in the heart of the capital and was hotter in neighborhoods close to the front lines, and Ukrainian forces targeted separatist neighborhoods in Donetsk with rockets and shells that did not result in any deaths.
The representative office of the Donetsk People’s Republic at the Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Cases Related to War Crimes Committed by Ukraine reported that Ukrainian forces shelled the republic’s territory 45 times during the past 24 hours, and in total they fired 208 shells, injuring one civilian. Among the cities and towns of the Donetsk Republic that were bombed: Donetsk, Gorlovka, Cherokaya Balka, Ozeryanovka, Yasinovataya, Makeyevka, Aleksandrovka, Yenovka, Novopetrovka, Oktyabrsky, Vladimirovka. As a result of the Ukrainian bombing, one person was injured, and 8 residential buildings and a civilian infrastructure facility were damaged.
The Russian forces continued to target the positions of the Ukrainian army in the Kobyansk and Krasny Liman axes on the borders of Kharkiv province with Donetsk province, while the Ukrainian forces are working to preserve the areas they have recovered in the Kharkiv axis with continuous shelling between the two armies and an increase in the number of Ukrainian strikes on the city of Kremnaya on the outskirts of Luhansk province adjacent to the same the hub.
As for Avdiivka, the Russian fighters continue to bomb the positions of the Ukrainian army to dismantle its steadfastness and shake the forts in the axis of northwestern Donetsk, using smart bombs that move and slide towards the targets according to the coordinates of the Russian army, which is working to expand the cordon on the city from the southwestern side and fierce battles in the town Adjacent to Pervamaiskaya in the same axis. Russian forces are attacking areas west of the city of Marinka, without success, after controlling large parts of the city.
The Russian army bombed with smart missiles fired by the destroyers the outskirts of Chernigov province, targeting Ukrainian fuel and weapons stores, according to a military source.
