Bakhmut's pre-war population of around 70,000 is ruined during months of fighting as a focal point of Russian assaults and determined Ukrainian defense.
Russian forces carried out continuous attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in their quest for a breakthrough in the year-long war, and one US official predicted few short-term territorial gains for Russia.
“The most difficult part, as before, is Bakhmut and the fighting that is essential for the city’s defense,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. “We are glad they are ours,” says a man in the clip identified as a fighter of the mercenary Wagner Group, adding the jets helped them “psychologically”.In Washington, senior US defense official Colin Kahl told a congressional hearing on Tuesday that the front lines of the war were a “grinding slog” and there was nothing to suggest “the Russians can sweep across Ukraine and make significant territorial gains anytime in the next year or so.
As part of an investigation into whether the attacks contravened the Geneva conventions on military conflict, the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor Karim Khan was in Ukraine on Tuesday. India does not want Ukraine to dominate the event, but it will top the agenda, said an Indian foreign ministry official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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