Watching imagery from a drone camera overhead, Ukrainian battalion commander Oleg Shiryaev warned his men in nearby trenches that Russian forces were advancing across a field toward a patch of trees outside the city of Bakhmut. Know more:
Ukrainian soldiers hug as they go to have some rest at the frontline near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on Saturday, May 27, 2023.OUTSIDE BAKHMUT, Ukraine—Watching imagery from a drone camera overhead, Ukrainian battalion commander Oleg Shiryaev warned his men in nearby trenches that Russian forces were advancing across a field toward a patch of trees outside the city of Bakhmut.
The pushback gives commanders in Moscow another thing to think about ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive that appears to be taking shape. Russia had envisioned the capture of Bakhmut as partial fulfillment of its ambition to seize control of the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland. Now, its forces have been compelled to regroup, rotate fighters and rearm just to hold the city. Wagner’s owner announced a pullout after acknowledging the loss of more than 20,000 of his men.
Michael Kofman of the Center for Naval Analyses, a US research group, noted in a podcast this week that the victory brings new challenges in holding Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces have clawed back slivers of territory on the flanks—a few hundred meters per day—to solidify defensive lines and seek opportunities to retake some urban parts of the city, said one Ukrainian analyst.
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