Fighting in Bakhmut’s streets but Russia has not taken city, says Ukraine, as civilian casualties rise; families evacuated from Kupiansk amid shelling
A woman was killed and two men were badly wounded in Bakhmut
by shelling while trying to cross a makeshift bridge out of the city on Saturday, according to Ukrainian troops assisting them., aiming to block Ukrainian forces’ access in and out and complete an encirclement of the city. The UK Ministry of DefenceThe death toll has risen to 11 from a Russian missile strike that hit a five-storey apartment blockUkraine has ordered a mandatory evacuation of families and vulnerable residents from theand adjacent north-eastern territories.
. In a statement on Telegram, Russia’s defence ministry said Sergei Shoigu “inspected the forward command post of one of the formations of the eastern military district in the south Donetsk direction”. The president of the European parliament, Roberta Metsola, has called for Ukraine to be allowed to begin EU membership negotiations this yearRussian foreign ministeras “the war, which we are trying to stop, and which was launched against us using the Ukrainian people”Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential far-right Republican in Congress, has called for the US to stop aid to Ukraine
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