Bakhmut , the Ukrainian city besieged by Russian forces, mourns the umpteenth damage of war .
Already battered and on her knees, she saw blown up - at the hands of Putin's militias - one of the main bridges that connected it to the village near the the Khromove and last supply route. And the bloody battle, conducted practically house to house, which has been raging for weeks in the town does not seem to have reached a truce. The Donetsk region police reported this to CNN.
The hope of the authorities is to be able to repair the connection in the coming days because it is a vital artery for the evacuation of civilians. But the isolation is not total : the Ukrainian military can still access the city through dirt roads and fields.
According to the founder of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, the city would have been practically completely surrounded and – as reported by the Russian media – in a video speech he called on Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky to evacuate the elderly and children .
And the ghost of nuclear power is back on the scene with the declarations of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Serghei Ryabkov at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva according to which the US and NATO are allegedly exacerbating the conflict, an involvement that could lead to a "direct military confrontation between nuclear powers with catastrophic consequences". "Russia takes note of the US path towards increasing arms shipments to Ukraine and the EU's tendency to do the same," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov .
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