KYIV (AFP)- The Russian military hit a command Centre of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment within side the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, consistent with the Russian defense ministry.
The ministry did now no longer offer information of the assault in its every day replace on what Moscow phrases the “unique army operation” in Ukraine. The document couldn’t be independently verified.
The Azov Regiment, which had far-proper and ultra-nationalist origins and is now a unit of Ukraine’s country wide guard, garnered worldwide interest for its resistance to the Russian siege of Mariupol’s widespread steelworks remaining year.
‘Lot of hypothesis over whether or not Ukrainian troops are getting ready to withdraw’ from Bakhmut After seven months of battles at the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine has denied rumours its forces are taking flight from the jap town, announcing as an alternative it’s far implementing the place with elite units.
A pro-Russian seize of the town could be a prime improve withinside the combat for the Donbas region
Kyiv says Russia pursuing ‘tries to encircle’ Bakhmut, vows to defend ‘fort Bakhmut’ Kyiv stated Sunday it changed into maintaining off assaults from Russian troops nonetheless trying to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed jap Ukrainian town that Moscow has been looking to seize for months. Ukraine has vowed to defend “fort Bakhmut” however it has confronted Russian troops decided to take the town that has become a political prize because the warfare drags on.
The Ukrainian wellknown team of workers stated “greater than one hundred thirty enemy assaults” were repelled over the last day such as in Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
“The enemy maintains its tries to encircle the city of Bakhmut,” it stated on Sunday morning. Sergiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for Ukrainian forces, stated on Saturday the state of affairs changed into “hard however beneathneath control” withinside the town he defined as a “precedence goal for the enemy”.
Turkey operating to resume Black Sea grain deal, FM says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated on Sunday that Ankara is operating difficult to increase a U.N.-subsidized initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded with the aid of using Russia following its invasion.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered with the aid of using the United Nations and Turkey remaining July allowed grain to be exported from 3 Ukrainian ports. The settlement changed into prolonged in November and could expire on March 18 except an extension is agreed.
“We are operating difficult for the clean implementation and in addition extension of the Black Sea grain deal,” Cavusoglu stated in a speech on the United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries being held in Doha, Qatar.
The US and allies had been flooding Ukraine with guns from Javelin missiles to HIMARS rocket launchers, however state-of-the-art jets and the most important armed drones have now no longer been pledged to Ukraine with the aid of using Western allies.
“This occasion lets in us to higher assist Ukrainian pilots end up greater powerful pilots and higher recommend them on a way to increase their personal capabilities,” the defence authentic stated, talking on situation of anonymity.
The Arizona “familiarisation occasion” will facilitate communicate among Ukrainian and US employees and offer an possibility to look at how the United States Air Force operates, the defence authentic stated.
