Battle for Bakhmut ‘stabilizing’ after months-long assault, Ukraine’s top soldier says
, where the situation is stabilizing, commander in chief General Valery Zaluzhniy said on Saturday
Separately, Britain’s defense ministry said the months-long Russian assault on the city had stalled, mainly as a result of heavy troop losses. Bakhmut is a major Russian target as it bids to fully capture Ukraine’s industrialized Donbas region. At one point Russian commanders expressed confidence the city would fall soon but such claims have tailed off amid heavy fighting.“The Bakhmut direction is the most difficult. Thanks to the titanic efforts of the defense forces, the situation is being stabilized,” Zaluzhniy said in a post on Telegram after a conversation with British counterpart Tony Radakin.
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