The images transmitted by news agencies show buildings transformed into piles of ash, holes in the ground due to the fall of grenades, even trees and agricultural land have not been spared from destruction.
Russian forces have been trying to control it since the summer Bakhmut To no avail, until it became the scene of heavy losses for both warring sides.
Bakhmut is on a strategic supply line between Donetsk And Luhansk, and control of the city, inhabited before the war by between 70,000 and 80,000 people and whose population has shrunk to nearly 10,000 now, would give Russia a springboard to advance towards two major cities, Kramatorsk and Slovansk.
The importance of Bakhmut, largely ruined by the Russian bombing that has been going on for months, lies in the fact that the Russian leadership wants to achieve a victory which it announces to the people after a series of setbacks it suffered in the war.
The fighting has been particularly fierce recently, with commanders on both sides describing it as "Meat grinder".
Thursday announced Ukrainian army The Russians are launching new attacks on Bakhmut, but they have failed.
The military said Russian air and missile strikes on Bakhmut and two other Donetsk cities, Kostyantinivka and Korakhov, killed and injured an unknown number of civilians, but Moscow denies targeting civilians in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s forces outside of Bakhmut were inflicting heavy losses on the Russians and that Moscow was building up its forces in the region.
And on Wednesday, a senior US administration official was expected "Way ahead" In the war that has been going on for 11 months, Bakhmut was specifically mentioned.
The official said to"Reuters": "Fighting still rages in Donetsk. I think we should expect to see what we are seeing in Bakhmut elsewhere on the front, because there will be fighting going on over the next few months.".
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The images transmitted by news agencies show buildings transformed into piles of ash, holes in the ground due to the fall of grenades, even trees and agricultural land have not been spared from destruction.
Russian forces have been trying to control it since the summer Bakhmut To no avail, until it became the scene of heavy losses for both warring sides.
Bakhmut is on a strategic supply line between Donetsk And Luhansk, and control of the city, inhabited before the war by between 70,000 and 80,000 people and whose population has shrunk to nearly 10,000 now, would give Russia a springboard to advance towards two major cities, Kramatorsk and Slovansk.
The importance of Bakhmut, largely ruined by the Russian bombing that has been going on for months, lies in the fact that the Russian leadership wants to achieve a victory which it announces to the people after a series of setbacks it suffered in the war.
The fighting has been particularly fierce recently, with commanders on both sides describing it as a “meat grinder”.
Thursday announced Ukrainian army The Russians are launching new attacks on Bakhmut, but they have failed.
The military said Russian air and missile strikes on Bakhmut and two other Donetsk cities, Kostyantinivka and Korakhov, killed and injured an unknown number of civilians, but Moscow denies targeting civilians in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s forces outside of Bakhmut were inflicting heavy losses on the Russians and that Moscow was building up its forces in the region.
On Wednesday, a senior US administration official predicted a “long way ahead” in the now 11-month-old war, specifically mentioning Bakhmut.
“The fighting continues to rage in Donetsk,” the official told Reuters, “I think we should expect to see what we are seeing in Bakhmut elsewhere on the front, as there will be continued fighting in the coming months.”
