Ukrainian soldier’s bodycam captures combat in Bakhmut as country says battle continues

Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Tuesday (May 23) released a video that shows action through eyes a soldier.

In the video captured by a bodycam, soldiers are taking shelter in a partly destroyed building firing their guns at targets and cautiously running away from the building in the war-ravaged city as the sound of explosions echoed over the area.

"Bakhmut direction. The "SIGNUM" division is working. The battle continues. Defense forces are making progress on the flanks. Glory to Ukraine,” wrote the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi on social media.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday (May 21) denied that Russian forces have captured the strategic city of Bakhmut.

“Today, they (the Ukrainian army) are performing a very important task. Today, they are in Bakhmut. At what points – I will not share. But this suggests that Bakhmut is not captured by the Russian Federation as of today. There are no two or three interpretations of this,” Zelenskyy said during a press conference in Hiroshima.

His statement came a day after the head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his forces have taken complete control of the city.

Zelenskyy was earlier reported to have acknowledged that Bakhmut had fallen, but his aide Serhii Nykyforov said that comment was down to a misunderstanding.

In a Facebook post, Nykyforov said Zelenskyy replied “I think no” when he thought a reporter asked him if the Russians had taken the city.

“In this way, the president denied the capture of Bakhmut,” Nykyforov said.

The Ukrainian military also said early Sunday that the battle for Bakhmut continues.

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