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Kremlin supporters openly feared the attack would create new battlefield challenges for Russia, whose only significant military victory in the past nine months came in the last few days.
Times photographers have been documenting Ukraine’s defense of the Eastern city since May 2022.
While Moscow is trumpeting a ‘mission accomplished’ moment in its war, Ukraine — even as it insists Bakhmut has not completely fallen — sees an opening to seize the initiative from the city’s outskirts if Russian forces are no longer pressing forward inside the city’s centre
Ukraine’s nuclear power company said the plant, Europe’s largest, had enough fuel for 10 days to keep critical equipment running.
President Volodomyr Zelensky of Ukraine received vows of resolute support and promises of further weapons shipments even as Russian forces claimed to have seized the war-torn city of Bakhmut.