MOSCOW: Russian troops on Wednesday (Oct 2) took cost of the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a bastion that had resisted intense assaults since Russia launched its full-scale assault in 2022.
The advance of Moscow’s forces, which management just below a fifth of Ukraine, has underlined Russia’s huge superiority in males and materiel as Ukraine pleads for extra weapons from the Western allies which have been supporting it.
Ukraine’s jap army command mentioned it had ordered a pullback from the hilltop coal mining city to keep away from encirclement by Russian troops and “protect personnel and army gear”.
The Russian defence ministry didn’t point out Vuhledar in its every day battlefield report.
Russian Telegram channels, nevertheless, revealed video of troops waving the Russian tricolour flag over shattered buildings.
The city, which had a inhabitants of over 14,000 earlier than the conflict, has been devastated, with Soviet-era condominium buildings smashed aside and scarred.
The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper mentioned the final Ukrainian forces from the 72nd Mechanised Brigade, a unit well-known for its resistance, had deserted the city late on Tuesday.
