Ukrainian forces repelled numerous Russian attacks in Bakhmut over the past 24 hours, Kyiv said on March 4, despite claims by Moscow’s mercenaries that the eastern city that has been the focal point of Russia’s months-long assault had been nearly completely surrounded.
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However, Western military experts said the situation in Bakhmut remains critical and that Ukrainian defenders are coming under “increasingly severe pressure.”
In the eastern region of Donetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its daily bulletin that the Ukrainian military had repelled more than 150 attacks by Russian troops over the last day around Bakhmut, Lyman, Avdiyivka, and Shakhtarsk.
“The enemy is ceaselessly attempting to encircle Bakhmut,” the …
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