Bakhmut
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| Area | 416 |
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| Weather | -7°C, Wind N at 16 km/h, 65% Humidity |
| Population | 77,177 (2015) |
| Hotels | View hotels |
| Local time | Saturday 15:41 |
| City rights | 1783 |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
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| ID | 2454072 |
About Bakhmut
Bakhmut formerly Artemivsk/Artyomovsk, is a city of regional significance in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. On 4 February 2016 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirmed the name change of the city by returning to the original one.
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... " He also presented a battle flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut - the site of the longest, and possibly bloodiest, battle in Russia s invasion of Ukraine...
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... The Ukrainian General Staff has reported that Ukrainian forces have conducted offensive operations south and north of what is left of the eastern city of Bakhmut - most of which has been under Russian control...
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... The attempt to seize Bakhmut - a small city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 people - is puzzling...
Ukraine war: Saboteurs cross into Russia's Belgorod, governor says
... However Mr Putin s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that efforts were underway to eliminate the sabotage group, and said its purpose was to draw attention away from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut - which a Russian mercenary group after months of intense and bloody fighting...
Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut
...Russian mercenaries are in full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, their chief says - a claim immediately dismissed by Ukrainian officials...
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...The head of Russia s Wagner mercenary group says he has raised a Russian flag over Bakhmut s city hall in Ukraine...
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... Russian forces claim they are about to take the eastern city of Bakhmut - the focus of intense fighting for many months...
Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut
Russian mercenaries are in full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut , their chief says - a claim immediately dismissed by Ukrainian officials.
" We took the whole city, " said Yevgeny Prigozhin , posing with some of his Wagner fighters.
Ukraine's deputy Defence Minister rejected The Claim but admitted The Situation was " critical".
Wagner mercenaries have been leading efforts to take The Eastern city and previously claimed to have seized it.
Bakhmut is of little strategic importance to Russia, which has been trying to capture it for months.
Ukraine, for its part, has also decided to make a stand in a battle which has become the longest and bloodiest of The War So Far .
Mr Prigozhin - a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin - leads the thousands-strong Wagner group, nominally a private military company.
He has said before that his forces have taken Bakhmut - or most of it - Only for Ukrainians to swiftly deny the claims. Mr Prigozhin has also targeted top Russian military officials, criticising them publicly for not supplying his troops with enough ammunition.
In his latest video claiming control of Bakhmut , Mr Prigozhin says " no-one can pedantically reproach us for the fact that at least some piece was not taken".
Explosions can be heard in the background, suggesting fighting continues close to The City , if not inside it.
He promises to hand The City over to regular Russian troops later in the month.
But in a statement on the messaging platform Telegram moments afterwards, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said: " Heavy fighting in Bakhmut . The Situation is critical.
" As of now, our defenders control some industrial and infrastructure facilities in the area and the Private Sector . "
Western officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Bakhmut , while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price.
There is hardly a building left unscathed, and The City 's entire population has vanished.
The latest Wagner claim came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went to Japan to attend a meeting of the leaders of The World 's most industrialised countries, the G7.
His Western allies pledged more support, including taking a significant step towards providing F-16 fighter jets, and announced more sanctions on Russia.
Russian troops invaded Ukraine on 24 February Last Year and control parts of its east.
Ukraine has been expected to launch an offensive to retake seized territories, but Mr Zelensky recently said that more Time Is needed to prepare.
He has called Bakhmut " a fortress" of Ukrainian morale.
Ukraine's hope is that The Fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
