“No one will hand over Bakhmut.
We will fight as long as we can, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying at a press conference following the EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv.
Earlier, an adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, did not name the losses of the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut (Artemivsk), but admitted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “pay the highest price” to keep the city.
It was also reported that the Russian army was entrenched in the east of Bakhmut.
Bloomberg reported that officials from the United States and European countries believe that the Ukrainian army may soon retreat from Bakhmut.