Almost two dozen communities near the hotly contested city of Bakhmut in Ukraine have been attacked by Russian forces.
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The region remains divided between Ukrainian and Russian control, while Russia has seized most of the Luhansk province. Together they form the eastern Donbas region that has been the focus of Putin's war.
Weeks of intense fighting with heavy casualties have barely moved the frontlines. The owner of the Russian mercenary force Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his fighters had advanced into a settlement on Bakhmut's northern edge, but the Ukrainian military disputed that claim, saying Russian forces were repelled.
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Yeah, Ukraine is winning on twitter…. . Real life is a completely different matter. Ukraine already lost most trained and motivated soldiers along with almost all hardware it had before the war plus hundreds of tanks and IFVs it got from Eastern Europe (to understand the scale of losses it had 1 990 tanks, 1 212 IFVs, 1 112 heavy artillery systems, 354 multiple rocket launchers). Its army is a shadow of its former self at the beginning of the war . Zelenskyy is catching and forced conscripting often at gunpoint mostly people with zero motivation to die for him, who never served in the army, often disabled. When such people are in the trenches, it means that the front can collapse at any moment. According to WaPo of all places Russians have 1:6 advantage in artillery (you can imagine their real advantage) . 85% of Ukrainian soldiers are killed even without seeing an enemy. Biden administration is getting quite desperate. The only option left for Biden administration is to throw Polish army into a meat grinder. I just hope that Polish government isn’t that crazy.