Reuters reported on April 30 that Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesman for the Ukrainian army in the east, confirmed on April 29 that Ukrainian forces still controlled the main supply route to the city of Bakhmut.
“For several weeks, the Russians talked about controlling the “lifeline” as well as constant fire control over that road. Yes, it was really difficult there… (but) the defense forces did not allow the Russians to “cut off” our logistics”, Cherevatyi stressed in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper.
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“The lifeline” is the vital road between Bakhmut and the nearby city of Chasiv Yar to the west, a distance of just over 17 km.
For the past 10 months, Russian forces have been trying to make their way into the ruined areas of Bakhmut, which was once a city of 70,000 people. Kyiv has pledged to defend Bakhmut, which Russia sees as a springboard to attack other cities in Ukraine, according to Reuters.
In addition, in an update on the military situation this morning, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that in the previous 24 hours, Ukrainian forces had repelled 58 Russian attacks along the front line of stretches from Bakhmut through the cities of Avdiivka and Maryinka to the south in the Donetsk Oblast.
Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner (Russia) private military company, said that his forces had advanced about 100-150 meters in Bakhmut, leaving the city less than 3 km 2 located. in the hands of Ukraine.
Reuters quoted analysts as saying that if Bakhmut falls, Chasiv Yar could be the next target to be attacked by Russia, although Chasiv Yar is on higher ground and Ukrainian forces are believed to have built forts. nearby defense.
There is currently no information on Russia’s response to these statements from Ukraine.
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A village in Russia was shelled by Ukraine?
Reuters reported today that Governor Alexander Bogomaz of the Russian province of Bryansk said that two civilians were killed in a Ukrainian shelling of a village in the province on the evening
“According to preliminary information, one residential building was completely destroyed, two other houses were partially destroyed. Emergency services continue to work at the scene”, Governor Bogomaz wrote. on the Telegram messaging app.
Kyiv almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks inside Russia and on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine, according to Reuters.
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Both sides deny targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict.
More than 21,000 Russian soldiers died in the war with Ukraine?
Using open sources, the Russian-language BBC, together with Mediazona , an independent Russian media outlet, identified the names of 21,700 Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine. Among them, at least 3,401 are members of Russia’s elite forces, including intelligence officers, paratroopers, marines and pilots, according to The Kyiv Independent .
The BBC and Mediazona say that by the most conservative estimates, the Russian military may have lost some 43,400 men and that Russia’s total irreparable losses, including the number of wounded, killed or missing, have up to 195,000 people.
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According to Western officials, the number of Russian soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine could reach nearly 200,000, according to The Kyiv Independent . There is currently no information on Russia’s response to this information.
Russia says it will respond after Poland confiscates embassy school
Moscow announced on April 29 that it would strongly respond to what it said was Poland’s illegal seizure of a school of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw.
Polish state news channel TVP Info previously reported that police appeared outside the building on Kielecka Street in Warsaw on the morning of April 29. Asked about the incident, a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry told Reuters that the building housing the embassy school belongs to the Polish state.
Poland confiscates the treasury of the Russian embassy, commercial office in Warsaw
In a statement on the same day, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Polish functional forces stormed the embassy’s school campus with the aim of seizing it.
Kremlin accuses US of making up Russian losses in Ukraine
The Kremlin rejected the US official’s estimate that “Russia lost 100,000 people in Ukraine”, calling it fabricated information.
“The US cannot give any exact figures. They do not have this data”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on May 2, after he was asked about the US official’s estimate. that the Russian military suffered around 100,000 casualties in the conflict with Ukraine over the past five months.
Peskov criticized US officials for “fabricating information”, and called for “only trusting the data published by the Russian Defense Ministry at the appropriate time”.
Russian marines take part in the conflict with Ukraine on March 3. Photo: RIA Novosti
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on May 1 that more than 20,000 Russian soldiers were killed and about 80,000 wounded in the conflict with Ukraine. About half of the Russian soldiers killed were members of the Wagner private military group.
According to Mr. Kirby, fighting in the Donbass region, especially in Bakhmut, from the beginning of December 2022 caused the heaviest loss of life for Russian forces. American officials assessed that the Russian offensive in the Donbass had failed because they could not control any strategically important areas.
The last time Russia announced the number of casualties on the Ukrainian battlefield was in September 2022. At that time, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that 5,937 Russian servicemen were killed while participating in the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
