Moscow has also claimed that Russian forces inflicted heavy losses elsewhere along the front line, including close to the city of Donetsk. The ministry claims Ukraine suffered heavy losses in the fighting, though CNN cannot independently verify assertions about battlefield developments. It said Moscow's forces repelled five attacks along the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia border in southeast Ukraine. What Russia is saying: For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Friday that Ukraine "continued to suffer significant losses during unsuccessful attempts" to advance in Donetsk and along the front lines in the south. He said regular Russian forces, who have now replaced the Wagner private military group in the city, have not put up the same level of fighting. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces, was upbeat Friday about his troops' progress outside Bakhmut. Ukrainian troops have made some progress around the embattled town of Vuhledar and the long-contested city of Bakhmut, the officials said.Ĭol. The Ukrainian Military Media Center says Kyiv's forces have had some limited success elsewhere in the Donetsk region and are not ceding ground. In eastern Ukraine: Further north, Shershen said Ukrainian units are defending the frontline town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region, which Russian forces have been trying to encircle for months. "The enemy has built up engineering fortifications, which complicates our advance, and each meter is difficult to gain," Shershen said. “We have not seen any reason to adjust our own nuclear posture, nor any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon," a spokesperson for the National Security Council said Wednesday.ĬNN’s Uliana Pavlova, Alex Marquardt, Zahid Mahmood and Sharon Braithwaite contributed to this report. US officials have also not seen any movement of nuclear weapons within Russia indicating they are heading to Belarus. What US officials have said: In response to the alleged movement of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, the White House said Wednesday that there is no indication that Moscow is preparing to use a nuclear weapon. Putin also claimed during his remarks that the Russian military could “destroy any building in the center of Kyiv,” but added, “we don’t do it.” Recent attacks in Moscow and the Belgorod region are an “attempt to provoke Moscow into serious powerful actions,” he added. The Russian president added there is "serious danger of further drawing NATO into this military conflict" by supplying military weaponry to Ukraine. “Also, we have more weapons like this than the NATO countries, they know it, and they keep driving towards negotiation on reduction,” he said. “Nuclear weapons are created to guarantee our security in the broader sense and the existence of the Russian state,” Putin said.
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