[ad_1] By AFP KYIV: Residents of Ukraine’s eastern hotspot of Bakhmut drop into a Kyiv support centre for medical care and clothing, weeping for their shattered town as Russia claims full control. Russia’s Wagner mercenaries claim to have captured Bakhmut...
[ad_1] By Associated Press KYIV: Although Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died, top Ukrainian military leaders say the battle is not over....
[ad_1] By AFP HIROSHIMA: President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday compared the “total destruction” of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to the 1945 devastation of Hiroshima, now hosting the G7 summit, after it was hit by a US atomic bomb. Bakhmut, which had a...
[ad_1] By Associated Press HIROSHIMA: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russian forces weren’t occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow’s insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Responding to a reporter’s...
[ad_1] The status of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was in question after Russia claimed it had gained control of it with the assistance of Wagner forces, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke solemnly of the city.Speaking in Hiroshima, Japan Sunday during...