Ukraine said on Monday it had attacked a base in the east of the Wagner paramilitary group, whose men are accused of fighting alongside Russian troops, and destroyed a bridge near the occupied southern city of Melitopol.
According to the governor of the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine, the base of the private military company in the city of Propasna was “destroyed by a precision strike.” The shooting took place on Sunday, Serguiï Gaïdaï said on Telegram.
Highly opaque, Wagner’s group is said to be linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigojine, considered close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The presence of its fighters has been confirmed in recent years in Syria, Libya, Mali and other African countries.
Ukrainian authorities also claimed that pro-Kyiv saboteurs managed to blow up a railway bridge near the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol (Zaropijjia region, south), in a new effort to disrupt the logistics of Moscow troops.
Several bridges attacked in recent weeks
“One less railway bridge to the southwest of Melitopol means a total absence of military trains from Crimea”, a peninsula annexed in 2014 by Russia and essential for supplying the Russian army, the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, announced on Telegram.
Ukraine has attacked several bridges in recent weeks, mainly in the occupied Kherson region (south), where Kyiv says it is carrying out a counteroffensive that has allowed dozens of villages to be retaken and now threatens Russian troops who have crossed the Dnieper River.
In the Odessa region (south), on the Black Sea, three vacationers died on Monday and two others were injured while bathing on a beach in Zatoka, a popular seaside resort, due to the detonation of an “unknown explosive machine,” said the spokesman. for regional authorities, Sergey Bratchouk, announced on Telegram. And in the morning, the Russian bombing of Kharkiv (northeast), the country’s second largest city, left one dead, a senior local police official, Serguiï Bolvinov, said on Facebook.
“At 11 a.m. Kharkiv was shelled. Nine people were injured. Unfortunately, a 75-year-old woman died in hospital from her injuries,” the governor of the city of the Kharkiv region confirmed in a video posted on Telegram, Oleg Synegubov.
“Tense” situation in Donetsk
“There were other bombings in other parts of the region,” he added. “Three people injured in these attacks have been hospitalized.”
In the Donetsk region (east), where the forces are currently concentrating their assault after having taken almost all of the neighboring Lugansk region, “the situation remains tense” and “the front line is under bombardment,” said the governor. regional Pavlo Kyrylenko in a video posted on his Telegram channel.
“Sloviansk was bombed overnight. And practically every day Bakhmut, Siversk and Soledar are bombed,” he continued. “Mariinka, Krangogorivka and Avdiivka are also constantly shelled. Almost three-quarters of the region’s population has been evacuated. A quarter of the population still remains.”
At the end of July, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced that the evacuation of the Donetsk region was mandatory, especially in anticipation of winter, the destruction of gas distribution networks risked depriving homes of heating.
Source: BFM TV
