Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, May 21, 2023
Zelensky says Russian troops are in Bakhmut but city is ‘not occupied’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Russian troops are in Bakhmut — which Moscow claims it captured yesterday — but insists the east Ukrainian city is “not occupied.”
“Today [Russian troops] are in Bakhmut,” Zelensky says at a press conference during the G7 summit in Hiroshima. But he adds: “Bakhmut is not occupied by Russia today.”