“Fierce fighting”: Russia advances in the city of Bakhmut, where Ukraine is putting up fierce resistance

Russian troops continue their slow advance on the town of Bakhmut, where they are trying to cut off the last supply route for Ukrainian troops, who show no signs of retreat and put up fierce resistance.

As confirmed this Saturday at the General Staff of Ukraine, in the direction bahmut there are fierce battles and Russian troops are trying to take control of the entire city, the fighting in which does not stop for months.

“At the front bahmut the enemy continues his offensive and tries to completely capture the city bahmutwhere fierce battles were recorded,” the military report says.

He added that the Russians also give priority to the Limansky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky fronts.

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Ukrainian analyst Dmitry Segeev assured today on the air of the Svoboda TV channel that “the enemy is pressing simultaneously from three directions.”

According to this expert, fierce fighting is going on in the area of ​​​​the Avangard stadium and the city railway station, which would give them an advantage when advancing from the center to the west, where troops are concentrated. Ukraine.

However, Sergeev assures that, despite the statements of the Russian side, currently about 40% of the territory bahmut remains under Ukrainian control.

Meanwhile, the Russian version of the situation in the strategic city is different.

According to various Telegram channels that specialize in covering the competition, the security forces Russia they practically blocked the supply route for Ukrainian troops from Chasovoy Yar, but the enemy retains the possibility of replenishing supplies by secondary routes.

In addition, Russian experts say that Moscow forces have already taken control of the Avandar stadium, where fighting has not stopped for several days.

The Ukrainians, according to the Russian version, would have sent reinforcements to the station area in order to hold their positions and prevent the storming of the western quarter, their last stronghold of resistance.

Waiting for the counteroffensive

The imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive is also one of the most searched topics in Russian search engines these days.

Russian officials at various levels have issued statements commenting on the announced counterattack, most of which downplay it.

The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, noted in this sense that the counteroffensive Ukraine only benefits Russia because it will allow his troops to get “more booty” from the West.

“This will be the icing on the cake. Trophies in the form of Western weapons and many prisoners who, as always, will say on camera that they are cooks or electricians, ”Kadyrov wrote on his social networks.

In his usual speech that day, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on his meeting with the General Staff on the situation at the front, at which he reviewed the state of the new brigades, which Ukraine preparing for a counter-offensive, which he hopes to launch this spring.

“The main attention is paid to the battles for Avdiivka and bahmutfor the Luhansk region, for each of those areas where the enemy is trying to break through the defenses of all Ukraine”, he assured.

Meanwhile, according to the Ukrainian military, Russia he will consider evacuating civilians from territories under his control in Zaporozhye and Kherson before the inevitable counteroffensive from Kyiv. (As reported by EFE)

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