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An armoured military vehicle speeds through Chasiv Yar during heavy fighting at the fronttline of Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on April 9 2023. Picture: KAI PFAFFENBACH/REUTERS
Ukraine’s Armed Forces General Staff said on Sunday that fighting was heaviest along the western approaches to Bakhmut. The Russians were also targeting the city of Avdiivka, it said.“The situation is difficult but controllable,” he said. Western analysts say both sides have been losing large numbers of troops in the battle for Bakhmut, a regional transport and logistics hub before the war.
“There is heavy fighting in the city centre and the enemy is gradually moving toward the western outskirts,” Zhdanov said.
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