Soldiers and analysts suggest defending city has become more of a political than practical issue, as Russian push continues
In the second week of February, pictures of blown-up bridges out of Bakhmut, in Ukrainian-controlled territory, started to appear online, indicating that Kyiv was preparing its retreat from the city.the logical place for the new line would still be some way from the neighbouring towns of Kostiantynivka and Kramatorsk and would mean that Ukrainian soldiers would stop facing attacks from three sides at once.
“Wagner doesn’t always retrieve the bodies of its fighters, while many of the former convicts fighting are not properly registered,” he said, on condition of anonymity. BBC Russia and the Mediazona news outlet have verified that at least 812 Russians have died but noted that the real number was likely “many times higher” as online obituaries in Russia rarely state where the soldier was killed.
Ukraine’s national security chief, Oleksiy Danilov, has said that one Ukrainian is killed for every seven Russians, and claimed that Ukrainian soldiers are killing as many as 1,100 Russians a day. It is impossible to verify Danilov’s figure. Nevertheless, all things point to Ukrainian losses being high, at about 100-200 a day.
The UK Ministry of Defence warned that the city was “under increasingly severe pressure”, adding that Ukrainian resupply routes out of the town were more and more limited.
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