Ukrainians said to pull back in Bakhmut as Moscow launches new push

Moscow is pressing to achieve a victory before Ukraine's expected counteroffensive.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has been drawing down troops from other areas on the front for a major push on Bakhmut, which Moscow has been trying to capture for nine months to reenergize the all-out invasion it launched more than a year ago.

"Ukrainian forces face significant resupply issues but have made orderly withdrawals from the positions they have been forced to concede," it said. Bakhmut, which held around 70,000 people before the war, has been Russia's main target in a massive winter offensive that has so far yielded scant gains despite infantry ground combat of an intensity unseen in Europe since World War Two.

"Every day, the enemy carries out in Bakhmut from 40 to 50 storming operations and 500 shelling episodes." The Institute for the Study of War think tank said geolocated footage indicated that Russian forces had advanced further west into central Bakhmut the previous day and made"marginal advances" in the south and southwest of the city.

"We are readying our boys," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address late on Thursday."We look forward to the delivery of weapons promised by our partners. We are bringing victory closer as much as possible."

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