“Bakhmut is holding out against all odds. And although most of the city is destroyed by Russian strikes, our warriors repel constant attempts at Russian offensive there. Soledar is holding out. Although there is even more destruction there and it is extremely hard...” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address. He stated further that General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, had “organized the steps necessary to strengthen our defense. In particular, transfer of additional units. And intensification of fire on the invaders.”
The US-based Institute for the Study of War writes that “Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin may be attempting to financially exploit Ukrainian natural resources around Bakhmut.” The ISW quotes him as saying there is a “network of underground cities” inside old mines and that they are holding up the Russian offensive. According to the ISW, Prigozhin “seeks to extract salt and gypsum from mines in the Bakhmut area for monetary gain”.
The former separatist leader in Luhansk Igor Strelkov-Girkin criticized the Russian military command and Yevgeny Prigozhin that even before attacking the Bakhmut-Soledar agglomeration, they knew about the mines, yet they allowed soldiers to be “wasted so skilllessly and fruitlessly”. So that even if “our troops achieve a tactical victory, we have already lost strategically, because we have once again thrown our best forces and resources towards an unworthy goal,” Igor Strelkov-Girkin says.
Germany is not ruling out the delivery of Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian army in future, Germany’s Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy Robert Habeck said in an interview with ARD TV. The comment comes after Germany announced it would be delivering Marder fighting vehicles to Ukraine.
On Saturday the weather in Bulgaria will be sunny . Over Central and Eastern Bulgaria there will be temporary increases in clouds and in places it will rain and thunder. Minimum temperatures will be between 15 and 21°C, in Sofia - 15°C...
The emblematic Egyptian vulture is making a comeback after being on the verge of extinction, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) has announced. The BSPB has established a record number of 35 nesting territories inhabited by..
The Bulgarian-Romanian border is now monitored from the air. The start was made on the Romanian side in Giurgiu in the presence of the Bulgarian partners from the Border Police in Ruse. Chief Commissioner Viorel Kiran said that the area of the..
President Rumen Radev appointed Bulgarian National Audit Office Vice-President Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva as the next caretaker Premier. The..
Bulgarian head of state Rumen Radev has met in the presidency with David Wright - commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulation Commission, who is on a..
Consumer confidence rose by 5.6 points in July, according to a survey by the National Institute of Statistics. According to consumers, the general..
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