Ukraine claimed its armed forces had conducted a successful counterattack on the outskirts of Bakhmut, the bombed-out eastern city which Russian forces have struggled to fully capture in nine months of attritional warfare.
“In some areas of the front, the enemy could not resist the onslaught of the Ukrainian defenders and retreated to a distance of up to 2km,” Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, said on Wednesday.
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