Скачать или смотреть Footage shows fierce battle in eastern Ukrainian city Bakhmut

Footage released by a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on March 11, 2023 shows fierce battle between the Ukrainian Army and Russia's Wagner mercenaries in the bitterly-contested Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine.

The fight in Bakhmut has bought time to plan a future counteroffensive against Russia's forces, said Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces.

He said the conflict which has become the longest over a city in Ukraine was necessary to restock ammunition and to draw out a strategy for the next phase of the war.

The Bakhmutka River in the centre of Bakhmut now marks the front line. Ukrainian forces hold the west of the town and have demolished key bridges over the river.

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