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March 11 (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russia On Saturday, they claimed that hundreds of enemy soldiers were killed in the battle for Bakhmut 24 hours killed during Kyiv preventing sustained attacks, and the small river that bisects the city now marks the new front line. .
Ukraine army spokesman Serhiy Cherevatyi said that 221 pro-Moscow soldiers were killed in Bakhmut, and more than 300 were wounded. Russia Ministry of Defence reported that up to 210 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the wider Donetsk part of the front.
Although Moscow did not specify Bakhmut’s casualties, the now largely deserted eastern city of Donetsk was the scene of one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the year-long war.
Both sides have admitted suffering and significant casualties at Bachmut, although the exact number of casualties is difficult to independently verify.
Britain military Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has taken control of most of the eastern part of Bakhmut, the intelligence agency said on Saturday – progress that the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed on Wednesday.
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Britain Ministry of Defence “The Bakhmutka River in the center of the city now marks the front line,” he said in a daily intelligence bulletin.
Ukraine that he stood in Bachmut and Russia that he gave a “decent response” to his forces, the defense of the commander responsible for the defense of Bakhmut of Ukraine he said that was the basis for his counterattack.
“We need to buy time to stockpile and launch a counter-attack, which is not far off,” the military said on Saturday. general– said Colonel Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Moscow says that the capture of Bakhmut of Ukraine will open a hole in its defense and will be a step to capture the entire industrial region of Donbas, which is the main target. Kyiv says that the battle is crushing Russia’s best units.
It is currently 1.2 km (0.75 miles) from the city’s administrative center, Prigozhin said on Saturday. The center is on the western side of the Bakhmutka river.
British intelligence said that with the river running through some open areas, “the area has become a killing zone and will probably prove too difficult for Wagner’s forces to attempt to continue their frontal attack westward.”
But the situation remained dangerous for the Ukrainian forces.
“Ukrainian forces and their supply lines to the west remain vulnerable to Russian attempts to outflank defenders from the north and south,” it said.
Written by David Ljunggren and Lydia Kelly; Edited by Grant McCool and Raju Gopalakrishnan
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2023-03-12 18:18:47
Source – reuters
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