Russia intensifies its attacks in Bakhmut and Biden and Scholz condemn its nuclear threats

All the media attention that Kherson captures seems to have been lost by Bakhmut. The enclave, where before the fighting began there were 70,000 people -there were barely 20,000 inhabitants left in the small city last May- has become one of the “hot spots” of the Donetsk front.

Paradoxically, and despite Ukraine’s push in almost all the territories where fighting is taking place, Russia is close to taking a city that it intends to besiege. Near 30,000 Russian soldiersthe majority of the Wagner paramilitary group, are currently surrounding the enclave, says a spokesman for the Ukrainian forces from the east to the middle New York Times.

Militarily, Moscow’s constant efforts to secure Bakhmut are misunderstood. Since the month of May, the percussion of the projectiles has been the daily life of those who have resisted sheltered in buildings where glass is conspicuous by its absence. Nevertheless, the ukrainian army refuses to surrender a city where the damage is extensive. The situation is quite a bargain for kyiv, which sees how Putin continues to send soldiers to a line without relevant weight and that, apparently, he has managed to defend with a scant garrison.

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In the last hours, the russian army has advanced in southern areas of the region, specifically, near the neighboring town of Opytne. Since Moscow deployed reservists to reinforce the front line, Ukraine’s conquests have been slowed down, especially in the Donbas and Zaporizhia regions. To the north, on the other hand, it is kyiv that advances, claiming to have gained control of a large estate that allows, for the moment, to prevent the Russians from surrounding the city.

The front line threatens to become bloody in the coming months and, in this sense, the main leaders of the West are concerned about the threat of a nuclear attack by Russia on Ukraine. Thus, in the middle of the Midterms campaign, it has transpired that Joe Biden held a conversation this Sunday with his German counterpart, Olaf Scholzin which both leaders were able to address, among others, the “irresponsible” nuclear escalation that looms in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The governments of both countries again staged their concern about the possibility of an excessive reaction by the Russian command, also highlighting their economic, humanitarian and security support so that kyiv can defend itself from Russia, reports Eph.

Last Friday, the German chancellor traveled to China, being the first European leader to visit the country in more than two years, to try to convince Xi Jinping so that he would exert his influence on Putin and dissuade him from using nuclear weapons. The United States, for its part, and despite the growing tension it maintains with the Executive in Beijing as a result of the Taiwan crisis, assures that it respects the decision made by Berlin to visit the Asian country.

“They suffer a lot of losses”

The balance of this autumn campaign is very positive for the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who assured late on Sunday that, on the eastern front, Russia was suffering “great” losses in the continuing and fierce fighting in Donbas. “Very fierce Russian attacks continue in the Donetsk region. The enemy is suffering serious losses there, ”the president clarified in his speech.

In Jersón the situation begins to take overtones of siege. The company in charge of supplying energy to the population announced this Sunday that a breakdown in the power line has left without light to all its inhabitants. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of having caused this cut, although it is Moscow that has most insisted on its message. “It’s a terrorist attack,” they say.

On the banks of the Dnieper, which surrounds the city behind it, Russia seems to be destroying the boats, according to kyiv, to prevent its army from using them to cross the river when the time comes. According to the spokesman for the Ukrainian General Staff, the fuel from the ships would have leaked into the river delta itself.