Home to 73,000 people before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 of last year, Bakhmut is now largely a pock-marked moonscape of blasted-out buildings.
On Monday, Syrskyi announced that Kyiv had put all of Bakhmut under “fire control,” meaning Ukrainian forces are now within striking range of all Russian targets.
Wagner had entirely pulled out of Bakhmut by late June, mere days before Prigozhin mobilized them in Russia to seize Rostov-on-Don, the headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District, which is in charge of all the regions Russia “annexed” in Ukraine.Ukrainian soldiers of the 57th brigade in tactical training as the Russian-Ukrainian war continues.
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