The government of Ukraine announced this Sunday that Ukrainian forces have recovered in the last hours the town of Blagodatnein the eastern Donetsk region and located about 35 kilometers south of Donetsk city.

The announcement has been made by the adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Anton Gerashenko, on his Twitter account. “The city has been liberated by the Ukrainian Army“He announced in his message, accompanied by a video in which members of the Ukrainian forces place the national flag on the facade of what remains of a building semi-destroyed by the fighting.

Elements of the so-called 68th Oleksa Dovbush Separate Hunter Brigade have collaborated in the operation. The group, on its Facebook website, has also published images of its presence in the town, which is located a few 140 kilometers northwest of Bakhmutone of the main sources of current conflict.

In the south, Ukraine has blown up a railway bridge of the line connecting the city of Melitopol with Crimea. Their goal is to completely isolate the peninsula, which is in Russian hands.

“The invaders put up resistance to the end, but they couldn’t stand up to them! the onslaught of the unstoppable gluttons!”, according to the publication of the brigade members, collected by Ukrinform. The group also assures that several Russian soldiers have been captured and right now they are providing “information that will contribute to more liberations of Ukrainian land.”

Russia has not spoken about the situation of the town but he has assured that he has repelled the Ukrainian attempts of the last few hours to advance positions in the region.

“In the Donetsk direction, the most active hostilities were carried out in the areas of the settlements of Maryinka and Avdivkawhere the group of southern troops successfully repelled eight attacks on the settlements of Novobajmutovka, Krasnogorovka, Pervomayskoye and Maryinka,” said Russian Army spokesman General Igor Konashenkov.

According to the spokesman, Russia has prevented any penetration of its lines along this front and ensured that at least 310 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed during this offensive, in which Russia has also destroyed two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles and two armored vehicles, according to its balance, collected by the TASS agency.

Wagner will never sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense

The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhinhas assured this Sunday that it will never sign any collaboration contract with the Russian Army, in what is supposed to be an essential requirement for the integration of “volunteer” combatants into the ranks.

In a new sign of his estrangement with the Defense Minister, Sergey ShoiguPrigozhin understands that this order only concerns the fighters dependent on the Ministry, and not his group, before assuring that he will always comply with the orders of Vladimir Putin as president of Russia and commander of the Armed Forces.

“Wagner is absolutely and completely subservient to the interests of the Russian Federation and the Commander-in-Chief“, Prigozhin has made known this Sunday on his Telegram channel, in which he has also reiterated that Wagner has always acted in coordination with generals Sergei Surovikin and Valeri Gerasimov, who in recent months have led the operations of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.