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Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the office of the president of Ukraine, has again issued a denial that Ukraine has mounted any attacks within Russian territory.
Explosions at critical facilities; unidentified drones attacking Russian Federation’s regions; clashes of gangs; partisans attacking populated areas – all these are direct consequences of the loss of control inside Russian Federation. And consequences of war. Ukraine is not involved in internal conflicts in the Russian Federation.
Yesterday Russia accused Ukrainian forces of mounting an incursion within its borders which the Kremlin described as terrorism, and earlier this week it dismissed Podolyak’s denial that Ukraine had launched drones against targets within Russia.
Here are some of the latest images sent to us over the news wires from Ukraine.
A Ukrainian serviceman carries a 152 mm shell to fire a Msta-B howitzer towards Russian positions, near the frontline town of Bakhmut. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
A doctor helps prepare an ambulance in the city of Konstantinivka. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
A Bible is seen on a table during as a member of clergy meets with Ukrainian soldiers in the barracks in the Nykyforivka village of Donetsk. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Artillery and mortar systems deployed on the Zaporizhzhia front. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports on its Telegram channel on the situation in Donetsk. It writes:
On 2 March, Russian troops carried out 45 strikes on 17 settlements in Donetsk region. They hit Bakhmut nine times with artillery, 18 high-rise buildings and one private house were destroyed and damaged, and there were wounded.
Earlier, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force, said in a video that Bakhmut was “practically surrounded”
None of the claims have been independently verified.
- The air alert that has been in effect across Ukraine is ending.
Reuters reports that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force, said in a video published on Friday that the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was “practically surrounded” by Russian forces and that Kyiv’s forces had access to only one road out.
Prigozhin in the video called on Volodymr Zelenskiy to withdraw his forces from the city, which Russia has been trying to capture without success for months.