A grueling seven-month battle for the front-line city of Bakhmut is coming down to street-by-street fighting and skirmishes on its outskirts, where Ukrainian forces are digging narrow trenches into the muddy ground to fortify their positions.
intended to dislodge Ukrainian troops from their defensive positions — but have not yet forced their withdrawal or encircled the city.
Ukrainian resupply routes out of Bakhmut are “increasingly limited,” the British Defense Ministry said. Two key bridges were destroyed in the 36 hours leading up to Saturday, it said. Elite Ukrainian fighter units are reinforcing the city’s northern suburbs, which are under attack from Russian forces and Wagner Group mercenaries, British defense officialsThe head of Russia’s Wagner Group said that if its forces were to retreat from Bakhmut, “the entire front will collapse.”
Yevgeniy Prigozhin made the comment in a video that circulated over the weekend, in which he also complained of an ammunition shortage,Evacuations of residents from Bakhmut have slowed amid Russian strikes against the cityCNN. Speaking from another town, Oleksandr Marchenko estimated that some 4,000 residents remain in Bakhmut and that many are refusing to go, with only five to 10 evacuations taking place daily.
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