“Soon Vogeldar could become a very important new breakthrough for us,” Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk region appointed by Moscow, said on Friday. The mining town, 150 km from Bakhmut, which had 15,000 inhabitants before the Russian invasion, saw “severe, brutal” clashes and Russian troops were “set up to the south-east and east of the town”, said an official in pro-Donetsk. Ian Gagin, Russian officer in the Eastern Region of the
The Ukrainian military’s spokesman for the eastern sector, Sergiy Tcherevaty, confirmed “fierce fighting”, while maintaining that the Russians had been repulsed. “The enemy really wants to achieve a breakthrough in this area, but thanks to the efforts of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, it is unable to achieve this,” he said on television. “The enemy is exaggerating, to put it mildly, its success,” he continued, concluding: “Faced with their losses, the enemy retreated”.
