[5日 ロイター] – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed “long-awaited news” from troops fighting in the strategic town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region in a routine video address on Thursday. No further details were given.
“Thank you to all the soldiers who gave us the news we were waiting for today. All the soldiers in the Bakhmut area are great,” he said.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private military company Wagner, said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces have recaptured part of Belkivka, north of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.