Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian lines near Bakhmut, military experts have said - but Russia says this ‘does not correspond to reality’
Russia’s defence minstry said: “The individual declarations on Telegram about a 'breakthrough' on several points on the frontline do not correspond to reality.Russia is understood to have suffered a significant loss of troops as Ukraine gained 2km - 1.2miles - with no loss of territory.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Friday that her country’s forces had advanced by about a mile around Bakhmut this week. The Institute for the Study of War tweeted: “Ukrainian forces likely broke through some Russian lines in localised counter-attacks near Bakhmut, prompting responses from Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense .
It added: “The deployment of low-quality Russian forces on the flanks around Bakhmut suggests that the Russian MoD has largely abandoned the aim of encircling a significant number of Ukrainian forces there.”
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