Ukraine says Russia is pursuing 'attempts to encircle' besieged Bakhmut
a now-destroyed eastern city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.
Russian forces are thought to have Donetsk city – largely in ruins after seven months of fighting – mostly surrounded. At least one woman was killed and two men badly wounded on Saturday while attempting to flee on foot. There is fighting in and around the city, the United States-based Institute for the Study of War said, warning that Ukrainian supply routes were narrowing.
The Azov regiment, which has far-right and ultra-nationalist origins and is now a unit of Ukraine’s National Guard, garnered international attention for its resistance to the Russian siege of Mariupol’s vast steelworks last year.Pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region posted a video purporting to show Wagner fighters in the suburbs north of Bakhmut, having taken control of the Stupki railway station.
Ukrainian servicemen preparing to fire a mortar on the front line near the town of Horlivka, in the Donetsk region, on March 4, 2023. PHOTO: REUTERS
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