It is day 354 of the war in Ukraine. Follow the latest news about the war and all its aftermath in this live blog.
Wagner-Baas: “Russian troops take the Ukrainian city of Krasna Hora”
09:55 am | Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian Wagner Group, says the mercenary force has taken the village of Krasna Hora, on the northern outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Reuters reports.
In an audio message posted by his press service on the Telegram messaging app, Prigozhin said, “Today the settlement of Krasna Hora was taken by the shock troops of the Wagner private military company.”
Prigozhin also released a short video, apparently showing Wagner fighters at the entrance to Krasna Hora, which had a pre-war population of 600.
Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, has been the scene of brutal wars for months. Kiev’s top military commander, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said on Saturday that Ukraine was still holding onto Bakhmut and was trying to “stabilize” the front line around him.
Again Russian missiles on Kharkiv
00:35 | Three Russian S-300 missiles hit the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The regional governor says so on Telegram. Nothing is known about the possible number of injured, but the city’s infrastructure has been damaged, according to the governor.
Source: BNR
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