Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Bakhmut is completely destroyed but the Ukrainian regime keeps denying that the city has fallen.
Asked on Sunday whether his forces had control of the eastern Ukrainian city, Zelensky said: “It’s a pity, it’s a tragedy, but for today Bakhmut is only in our hearts.”
His office later clarified that he had not said that the city had fallen.
The Wagner Russian paramilitary claimed to have captured the city on Saturday.
In a video its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin – posing with some of his fighters – said that his forces had control of the entire city.
Analysts say that Bakhmut is of little strategic value to Moscow, but its capture would be a massive victory for Russia after the longest battle of the war in Ukraine so far.
Zelensky was asked about Bakhmut at the meeting of G7 nations in Hiroshima’
“You have to understand there is nothing,” he said.
Hardly a building remains standing in the city, and nearly its entire population has fled.
Zelensky has previously called the city “a fortress” of Ukrainian morale.
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