Russia’s Wagner Group Launches Fresh Assault On Ukrainian Village

• Russia’s Wagner Group has launched a fresh assault in a Ukrainian village.

• Ukraine’s military says it repelled the attack near Blahodatne, but the Russian mercenary group says it is in control.

• Russian troops have increased their attacks in the east of Ukraine, particularly on the towns of Vuhledar and Bakhmut.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine’s military said its forces drove back an assault in the eastern Donetsk region after Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group said it took control of Blahodatne village.

The forces “repelled attacks near. Blahodatne” and 13 other settlements in Donetsk, the Ukrainian military said in its daily report on Sunday.

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But the Wagner Group said earlier that its units had seized the village
“Units of Wagner PMC have taken Blahodatne.

Blahodatne is under our control,” Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said.
There was no immediate confirmation from Russia’s defence ministry.

Russian troops have increased their attacks in the east of Ukraine, particularly on the towns of Vuhledar and Bakhmut. Moscow’s primary goal is to capture the eastern Donetsk region that it already declared part of Russia.

Ukraine is facing a “very tough” situation in the east and needs faster weapons supplies and new types of weaponry to withstand Russian attacks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.

“The situation is very tough. Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other sectors in Donetsk region – there are constant Russian attacks,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
“Russia wants the war to drag on and exhaust our forces.

So we have to make time for our weapons. We have to speed up events, speed up supplies and open up new weapons options for Ukraine.”

Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, reported at least three people were killed on Sunday after Russian shelling of residential areas in the southern city of Kherson.

According to the administration, the artillery barrage killed two men and a woman, and six others were wounded.

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Civilian facilities were damaged, including a hospital, school, bus station, post office, bank and residential buildings.

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