UPDATED. US media outlet CNN reports that Ukraine has been forced to amend some of its military plans ahead of an anticipated counter-offensive due to a leak of classified US documents.
KYIV, Ukraine – Russian forces pressed attacks on frontline cities in eastern Ukraine on Monday, April 10, while Ukrainian officials played down a report that Kyiv had had to amend some military plans ahead of a counter-offensive due to a leak of classified US documents.
The Ukrainian military said on Sunday fighting was heaviest along the western approaches to Bakhmut – a regional transport and logistics hub prior to the war. Russian forces were also targeting the city of Avdiivka, it said. The secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, told Reuters: “We are working on our own plans… The opinion of people who have nothing to do with this do not interest us… The circle of people who possess information is extremely restricted.”
On Monday, Ukrainian ground forces commander Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said the defense of Bakhmut continued.Moscow is sending in special forces and airborne assault units to help their attack as members of Russia’s private mercenary Wagner group are now exhausted, Syrskyi said. Control of Bakhmut could allow Russia to directly target Ukrainian defensive lines in Chasiv Yar in the east and open the way for its forces to advance on two bigger cities in the Donetsk region – Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
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