Ukraine reports unrelenting Russian attacks on key city of Bakhmut
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BAKHMUT. Smoke is seen during a shelling, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of the front line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine April 10, 2023.
REUTERS/Oleksandr Klymenko
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has said his forces held 80% of Bakhmut, but the Ukrainian military says that figure is exaggerated
Russia’s military on Thursday, April 13, pressed on with unrelenting attacks on the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and also shelled the southern city of Kherson, officials in Kyiv said.
The Kremlin sees Bakhmut as pivotal in its slow-moving advance through eastern Ukraine more than a year after it invaded its
