In Moscow, the Kremlin accused Ukraine of being behind a bomb blast at a cafe in St Petersburg on Sunday that killed a prominent Russian pro-war blogger
The battle for Bakhmut has been one of the bloodiest of the
“Bakhmut is Ukrainian and they have not captured anything and are very far from doing that, to put it mildly,” he told Reuters. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his Sunday night video address, thanked the soldiers fighting in Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka.MURAT YUKSELIR / THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: GRAPHIC NEWS
Russian forces, bogged down in a war of attrition after a series of setbacks, are seeking a victory to give new momentum to a winter offensive but they have suffered huge casualties in the battle for Bakhmut. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers on both sides have been killed. Russia has destroyed Ukrainian cities and forced millions of people to flee their homes, and it claims to have annexed nearly a fifth of Ukraine.
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