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Explained: What Happens To Bakhmut As Ukraine Prepares For A Russian Threat

Ukrainians said they were preparing to defend one of the possible targets of a new Russian offensive during exercises near the eastern city of Seversk. Siversk is north of Bakhmut, which has been heavily contested in recent weeks. Bakhmut is of paramount importance as it is on the direct route to an

Explained: What Happens To Bakhmut As Ukraine Prepares For A Russian Threat
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Explained: What Happens To Bakhmut As Ukraine Prepares For A Russian Threat

Ukrainians said they were preparing to defend one of the possible targets of a new Russian offensive during exercises near the easterncity of Seversk. Siversk is north of Bakhmut, which has been heavilycontested in recent weeks. Bakhmut is ofparamountimportance as it is on the direct route to another key city in Donetsk region, Sloviansk. 


"If they took Bakhmut, we would be halfsurrounded, because on the left we have the Siversky Donets river, and the enemy will attack from the right, and wecanbe cut off when they reach the Bakhmut highway,"saidthe deputy commander oftheSiwerskbattalion,accordingtotheReuters news agency. 

 Ukraine has also askedtheWest for more advanced weapons to defend Bakhmut, which is underattack by theRussian Wagner Group.

Expertsfearthattaking Bakhmut will give Russian forces a stepping stone to theWest,to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.Evenif the West downplaysBakhmut'simportance. Meanwhile, Russia'sDefenseMinistry said its military had captured Hrianykivka, a village in eastern Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the forces in the regionandsaid in a video address that "that'swherethe most brutal and important fighting tookplacetakeplace".

Earlier this week, the West pledged to increaseits support for Ukraine,as White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby concededthat Russia had "further gains in and around Bakhmut." suffered more than 30,000 casualties, ofwhich approximately 9,000 were killed in action," he said.




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