The command of the Ukrainian ground forces is on a visit to besieged Bakhmut to discuss strategy and boost morale. | – #command #Ukrainian #ground #forces #visit #besieged #Bakhmut #discuss #strategy #boost #morale
Media, February 27 (Reuters) – Ukraine commander of the ground forces general-Colonel Alexander Syrskii to raise morale and of Ukraine visited besieged Bakhmut to discuss strategy with units defending the city and surrounding villages to its east, the army said over the weekend.
Military analysts expect Ukraine forces will use their “maximum efforts” to defend Bakhmut, which witnessed the bloodiest battles of Russia’s year-long occupation, in the coming days.
Russia of Ukraine considered the capture of Bakhmut a priority in the strategy of taking control of the industrial region of Donbas in the east.
“(Syrski) listened to the solution of the urgent problems of the unit commanders, provided assistance in their solution and supported the servicemen,” the Ground Forces said in the Telegram messaging program.
of Ukraine 57-year-old commander, one of the most experienced commanders Russia forces in Kiev at the beginning of the war and in September Kharkiv he was considered the main planner of his defeat while advancing towards his region.
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Syrskyi, now engaged in the defense of Bakhmut, made a series of visits to the city, Kyiv forces will hold it.
“A well-thought-out system of engineering obstacles combined with the natural (hilly) landscape turned the area into a real impregnable fortress, on whose walls not only thousands of enemies found death,” Syrsky said at the beginning of February.
Russia Recent progress has been made in encircling Bakhmut, where only 5,000 of its 70,000 residents remain, but its failure to capture the city denied Russian President Vladimir Putin the chance to declare victory on February 24, the first anniversary of his occupation.
After the Russian Wagner mercenary group claimed to have captured it and the village of Berkhivka over the weekend Ukraine forces launched a series of counter-attacks around the village of Yahidne and defeated the Russian forces.
Russia Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that its forces had destroyed Ukrainian “provocative and intelligence groups”, including in the Yahidne region, while Russia’s state-run TASS news agency said Ukrainian forces had blown up a dam north of Bakhmut.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Fierce fighting on the front line in southern and eastern Ukraine, especially near Bakhmut, now consists of attempts by each side to move the line, sometimes by several meters.
Military Ukrainian counter-offensives north of Bakhmut over the weekend helped stabilize the front there, analysts said. But Moscow is constantly deploying new troops and equipment.
“Russia may launch a three-pronged attack from Monday,” the Ukrainian said military analyst Oleh Zhdanov social he said in a video he shared in the media. “Ukraine makes maximum efforts to save Bakhmut”.
Putin It invaded Ukraine, claiming it was necessary to protect Russia’s sovereignty, but Ukraine and its Western allies say it was nothing more than an unprovoked land grab.
Reporting by Oleksandr Kojukhar; Writing by Lydia Kelly in Melbourne; Edited by Michael Perry
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2023-02-27 07:02:27
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