"While multiple alternative supply routes across the country remain available to Ukrainian forces, the city of
Bakhmut
is increasingly isolated."
The intelligence of the British Ministry of Defense writes it on Twitter, explaining that the two main roads of the city for the Ukrainian defenders - the M03 and the H32 - are now both probably threatened by direct fire, following the Russian advance". , "earlier in the week, the paramilitary forces of the Wagner group most likely seized a subordinate route connecting Bakhmut to the city of Siversk."
The Russian army is shelling the city of
Kharkiv
and other parts of the region in eastern Ukraine this morning, the head of the regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov said on Telegram.
An S-300 missile hit the city center, "information about possible casualties and destruction is still under investigation," Sinegubov added.
President Volodymyr Zelensky's representative in the Ukrainian parliament,
Fedir Venislavsky
, declares in an interview with the German newspaper Bild that all military installations in Russia from which Moscow is waging its war are legitimate military targets for Ukraine.
"Russia - says Venislavsky - attacks peaceful Ukrainian cities from its territory, as well as from Belarus. Are the places where Russia stores its missiles legitimate military targets? Sure, no doubt. And any command center in the Russian capital is a legitimate military target,” the Kiev official said, adding that it is up to Ukraine's military leadership to decide whether to strike such targets.
Just yesterday, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev threatened the use of atomic bombs in response to attacks by Ukraine on Crimea or any other Russian region.
Scholz, Putin did not threaten me or Germany
"Putin did not threaten me or Germany. During our telephone conversations, our very different positions on the war in Ukraine are very clear".
This was stated by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an interview with Bild am Sonntag, explaining that he had told President Vladimir Putin "clearly that Russia is solely responsible for the war. Russia has invaded the neighboring country to take over parts of the Ukraine or the country".
"We cannot accept it, because it violates European peace. This is why we support Ukraine financially, humanitarianly and also with arms," he added.
There is "agreement" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Western-supplied weapons should not be used for attacks on Russian territory, the German chancellor also said in an interview with the weekly Bild am Sonntag on Sunday.
"There is consensus on this point"
