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According to him, fighting is raging around the city administration building, which the Russian paramilitary group Wagner claims raised the Russian flag on.
Cherevaty told Reuters by telephone that Bakhmut is Ukrainian.
"Bakhmut is Ukrainian, they have not taken anything and they are very far from doing so, to put it mildly," said Cherevaty.

Daria Trepova, born in 1997, was brought before the investigator, the interlocutor of the agency said.
According to him, the investigation has reason to believe that Trepova brought a box with a bust of Tatarsky, which contained an explosive device, to the cafe.

The flag was raised with the inscription "Good memory of Vladlen Tatarsky".
Prigozhin's comment was published on the Telegram channel of his press service.

Russia's Wagner paramilitary group on Monday claimed it had captured the city hall in Ukraine's eastern town of Bakhmut, giving it "legal" control, but Kiev said its forces still held the town.

The battle for Bakhmut has raged for months with Wagner supporting Russian troops and Ukraine warning the fall of the town would lead to the loss of huge swathes of its territory.

Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday morning that the loss of Bakhmut could undermine Ukraine's momentum, forcing them to compromise with Vladimir Putin.
Since then, the General Staff of its armed forces announced that the Russian offensive had "a certain degree of success".

Slovakia signed an intergovernmental agreement on the provision of military equipment, effectively jets, with Ukraine on March 17, despite threats from Russia.

The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville was able to buy and conceal multiple weapons in the family home despite evidence of mental health issues, police said Tuesday.

Two nine-year-old girls, a nine-year-old boy, two teachers and a school custodian died in the Monday attack, which recharged the bitter debate over gun rights in the United States.

This was said by one of Kyiv's top generals, raising hopes for an unlikely turnaround in the besieged city. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, announced on his Telegram channel that "the Russians are losing significant forces in Bakhmut and are running out of energy."

European Union leaders endorsed a plan Thursday for sending Ukraine 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition within the next 12 months to help the country counter Russia's invasion forces.

Day 393 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours: