Ukraine war: Zelenskyy hopes to attract arms manufacturers as troops claim advances in Bakhmut

All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.

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00:00 Ukraine's state border guard service has released a video in which one of its fighters

00:06 said their units together with Ukrainian armed forces had made strategic advances in the

00:11 eastern Donetsk region on their route to Bakhmut.

00:14 Meanwhile, in its weekly briefing on Friday, Russia claimed that its army carried out nine

00:20 group strikes by long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine from

00:25 the 24th to the 29th of September.

00:29 Ukrainian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a top Wagner Group commander, Andrei Trochev,

00:34 to take charge of volunteer units fighting in Ukraine.

00:38 The decision appears to show the Kremlin's plan to integrate Wagner Group leaders after

00:42 the death of their chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

00:46 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky commemorated victims of the Babi Yar massacre after the

00:51 killing of nearly 34,000 Jews at the hands of Nazi troops during World War II.

00:56 (electronic music)