Figure is acceleration in casualties, with most troops killed in brutal trench warfare for eastern city of Bakhmut
The two sides are fighting for control of a road west out of the city. It serves as the last vital supply line for Ukrainian troops fighting on the ground there.
“This attempted effort, particularly in Bakhmut, has come at a terribly, terribly high cost. Russia has exhausted its military stockpiles and its armed forces,” Kirby said. The mounting losses, and intense propaganda campaign about Russian military advances, will only have given political impetus to Putin’s drive to seize it.
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