KPIX CBS Weekend News June 4, 2024 01:40:00
Russian strikes around bakhmut. but the battle for the city has raged on for seven months and the stakes are high on both sides. >> reporter: russian forces be closing in. the battle for bakhmut is in such a confined area, ukrainian soldiers are surrounded on three sides and yet they keep fighting. despite the enormous cost. in a grim propaganda video the founder of the russia-backed wagner mercenary group points to crudely made wooden coffins saying we are sending another shipment of ukrainian army fighters back home. capturing bakhmut is unlikely to change the trajectory of the war. but seiz...