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8 Jan. () –
The Russian businessman and founder of the Wagner group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, has explained his determination to take the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut due to the “network of underground cities” that the region houses.
Asked by the media about the interest of the Wagner group in taking over the city of Bakhmut, Prigozhin has stated that the region is a “central point of the Eastern Front” and an “important logistics center”, according to what the company has shared on its official news channel. Telegram.
“The icing on the cake is the Soledar and Bajmut mining system, which is actually a network of underground cities,” the businessman clarified.
“Not only does it have the capacity to house a large group of people at a depth of 80-100 meters, but tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can also move,” added the Russian oligarch, stating that reserves have already been stored. of weapons in those tunnels since the First World War.
The businessman has also highlighted the unique geographical and historical defensive capacity of the city, firstly due to its division by water barriers, and secondly, due to the surroundings of the region that create “a single defensive system”.
In this sense, and within the framework of the Russian attacks, the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has denounced this Sunday bombings by Moscow in the town of Bakhmut, in the eastern region of Donetsk, which have caused the death of two civilians.
The Ukrainian leader has communicated these attacks in his daily address to the nation in which he has also accused Moscow for its “false words” for the alleged violation of the ceasefire during the Orthodox Christmas holidays.
“The world has been able to verify once again today how false Moscow’s words are at all levels. There they said something about a supposed ceasefire… But the reality is that Russian projectiles hit Bakhmut and other positions again Ukrainians”, the Ukrainian leader stated in a speech delivered at midnight, the hour that marked the end of the truce.
