“The Russians capture the center of Bakhmut, ISW confirms”

“For me, the most important thing is not to lose our soldiers, and naturally, if there was a moment of even hotter events and there was a danger that we would lose our soldiers in the encirclement, then the generals would reach for an adequate decision,” Zelenskyy said at the press conference.

However, according to him, such a situation has not yet arisen, even though the soldiers in Bakhmut are facing a difficult situation, the agency said Reuters.

Zelenskyy said that even though Ukrainian soldiers sometimes make small advances in Bakhmut, they are often immediately pushed back by Russian forces: “There are successes in some districts of Bakhmut and we are advancing. Or they are not and we return to the positions.

Washington’s Institute for the Study of War (ISW) he admitted, that the efforts of the Ukrainian soldiers prevent the Russians from advancing further because they keep them in one place. The Russians have been trying to take control of Bakhmut since June of last year in order to open the way to Slovjnask and Karamtorsk. However, it is not clear what price the Ukrainians are paying for this, according to ISW analysts, that will only become clear later.

ISW confirmed that on Wednesday, the Russians achieved further successes when they managed to advance north of the city near Chromov, two kilometers away, and to the northwest near Orichovo-Vasylivka, 11 km away, which the footage confirmedwhich was located.

According to a Russian military blogger with a pseudonym, members of Wagner’s group Rybar they fortified the stadium of the local Metallurg and took control of the adjacent school number 11. Russian troops continue to try to cut off Bakhmut from the nearby Chasiv Yar to further complicate the supply of the defenders.

The Russians are not only massively shelling Bachmut with Grad rocket launchers, but they have also deployed TOS-1V systems that fire rockets with thermobaric warheads. She also appeared videos.

Despite the fact that some places controlled by the Russians were located and even the ISW admitted that the Wagnerites had taken control of the city center, the Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maljarová tagged it for mere propaganda to weaken the resolve of the defenders. However, according to her, such a thing is not possible: “The enemy is not able to psychologically influence the decision-making of our command in the Bachmut direction, just as it is not possible to demotivate our soldiers.”

But the fact is that even the Ukrainian side no longer talks, for example, about the defense of the AZOM plant, where they shelled the enemy’s positions this week, or about other places near Bakhmut that they defended in the past weeks.