Fighting intensified around Ukraine's Bakhmut, as the leader of the Russian paramilitary Wagner group said he had raised a Russian flag near the strategic eastern town’s City Hall
Ukrainian troops have held out against waves of Russian assaults around the city of Bakhmut for more than six months.Fighting intensified around the contested front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine’s president said, as the leader of the Russian paramilitary Wagner group said he had raised a Russian flag near the strategic town’s City Hall.
The battle for Bakhmut, a coal-mining hub in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, has become a pivotal battlefield in the broader war for both Russia and Ukraine. Moscow has made its capture a core objective, while Ukrainian troops have held out against there for more than six months. The ferocity of the fighting has reduced much of the city to rubble and imbued Bakhmut with as much symbolic as strategic importance, military analysts say.
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