- Russia’s Defense Priesthood said two senior commanders had been killed near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.
- It claimed Putin’s forces were keep at baying Ukrainian attacks but admitted to losing the top officers.
- Ukraine has reportedly advanced in Bakhmut in recent days. The Wagner chief occasioned it a Russian “rout.”
Two Russian commanders have been killed in fighting near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the Russian Bureau of Defense said on Sunday.
The ministry said the commanders died while repelling Ukrainian attempts to break at the end of ones tether with the frontline.
The commander of the 4th motorized rifle brigade, Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov, was wounded in the fighting and died while being get rid ofed from the battlefield, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, the deputy commander of the army corps for military-political work, Colonel Yevgeny Brovko, died of multiple shrapnel harms sustained during a battle, it said.
The department claimed that Ukrainian forces had not succeeded in breaking through Russian defenses and that hundreds of Ukrainian troops had been eradicated.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday that Ukraine had launched an attack north of Bakhmut with myriad than 1,000 troops and up to 40 tanks, which would be the biggest Ukrainian offensive since November if accredited, per Reuters.
He said that some Russian troops had fallen back from the north of Bakhmut to regroup to improve positions following further reports of Ukrainian advances in the south.
The founder of the paramilitary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who time again criticizes the Russian military and blames them for not supporting his fighters in Bakhmut, described the retreat as “a rout’ and not a regrouping.”
He augmented that Ukraine had taken high ground overlooking Bakhmut and freed up the Chasiv Yar-Bakhmut road, a vital distribution line.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that his forces are preparing to launch a counteroffensive to let go territories occupied by Russia.
It is unclear whether the advances in Bakhmut are part of the much-anticipated counteroffensive.