Russian forces have made progress in their campaign to capture the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the focus of the war's longest ground battle. 9News
, the focus of the war's longest ground battle, but their assault will be difficult to sustain without more significant personnel losses, British military officials say.
Ukrainian troops and supply lines remain vulnerable to “continued Russian attempts to outflank the defenders from the north and south” as the Wagner Group's forces try to close in on them in a pincer movement, the UK ministry said. The institute reported in its Friday night assessment that Moscow’s apparent focus on capturing the plant, rather than opting for a “wider encirclement of western Bakhmut” by attempting to take nearby villages, was likely to bring a further wave of Russian casualties.
Meanwhile, repair work continued Saturday across Ukraine following a massive Russian missile and drone strike two days earlier that killed six people and left hundreds of thousands without heat or electricity. Russian shelling between Friday morning and Saturday morning killed at least five people and wounded another 19 across Kherson and Donetsk provinces, Ukrainian authorities reported.
Ukrainian defense chief Oleksiy Reznikov welcomed his Norwegian counterpart to Kyiv on Saturday. Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram announced Norway's decision to earmark $7.5 billion over the next five years for weapons and other aid for Ukraine.
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