Russia’s war on Ukraine latest: Russian infantry brigade flees Bakhmut outskirts, Kyiv unit says

May 10 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian military unit said it had driven a Russian infantry brigade out of frontline areas near Bakhmut and claimed to confirm a report by the head of Russia’s Wagner private army that Russian forces had fled.

CONFLICT

* Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin complained that his Wagner fighters were still not receiving enough shells from the Defense Ministry to underpin their advance into Bakhmut.

* The war in Ukraine will increasingly be a battle between large numbers of poorly trained Russian troops with outdated equipment and a smaller Ukrainian force with better Western weapons and training, NATO’s top military official said.

BLACK SEA GRAIN DEAL

* Turkey’s foreign minister said he thought the Black Sea grain deal with Ukraine could be extended for at least two more months as officials from the parties involved held the first day of talks on an extension in Istanbul.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

* Russian forces plan to evacuate more than 3,000 workers from the town that serves the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, leading to a “catastrophic shortage” of personnel, Ukraine’s state-owned Energoatom has said.

DEBATE ON SANCTIONS

* European Union states held a first discussion on proposed new sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine that would target Chinese and Iranian firms and allow export restrictions on third countries to blast trade restrictions.

IN RUSSIA

* A filling point of the Druzhba pipeline in a Russian region bordering Ukraine was attacked, the TASS news agency reported, citing the Russian oil pipeline operator Transneft.

* Two drones attempted to attack a military facility in Russia’s Voronezh region but failed, the region’s governor said.

* Russia’s air defense forces shot down an “enemy” drone in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, the governor said, adding that falling debris damaged a gas pipeline and a house.

* Two Russian soldiers from Kamchatka in the Far East have each been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine, human rights group OVD-Info said.

POLAND-RUSSIA VOLTAGE

* The Kremlin said Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a “hostile act”. Bilateral relations remain fragile because of the war in Ukraine.

* Poland has subpoenaed the Russian ambassador over an incident on Friday involving a Russian fighter jet and a Polish border patrol plane over the Black Sea, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman said.

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