About 3,500 Ukrainian civilians remain in the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, which has suffered heavy fighting between invading Russian troops and Ukrainian defense forces, the Donetsk military administration said Thursday.
According to the same source, the Ukrainian authorities are trying to “convince” the remaining 3,500 people in the city that until February 24 last year, the date of the start of the second Russian invasion of Ukraine, 84,000 inhabitants lived in it.
Pavla Kirilenko of the Military Administration of Donetsk, civilians still in the city care for 32 minors and live permanently in shelters.
On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that ten children remained in Bakhmut.
Specifically, the situation in the city has not yet been monitored by independent sources.
On March 7, Kyiv “ordered” the total evacuation of the city, where at that time there should have been about four thousand civilians.
Part of the city is controlled by Russian forces, including fighters hired by the Wagner mercenary company, according to military sources in Moscow and Kyiv.
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Source: CM Jornal
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