BBCNEWS BBC World News June 4, 2024 05:17:00
Front of ukraine. it is an area where contract soldiers, a private army called the wagner group, is doing the bulk of russia's fighting and they are throwing everything at the town of soledar and bakhmut to try and achieve some immediate gain. we're in a phase of this conflict where they are throwing everything at it, at a huge human cost. and i wouldn't be surprised to see ukraine make some kind of tactical retreat to wait for russian forces to exhaust themselves, if you like. for now, kyiv is adamant the defensive lines are holding and they say the wagner group are putting some of their best...