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james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode. this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, as the bbc has reported, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught. but now russian commanders are growing increasingly confident, including the leader of the mercenaries known as the wagner group, which have been at the heart of the assault. translation: we have - almost surrounded bakhmut. there s only one road that remains in and out of the city, the pincers are closing. before, we were fighting against the professional ukrainian army, but now we fight against old men and boys. ukrainian forces are still defending the city street by street and reports suggest reinforcements are being sent in. but these russian troops, say the ukrainian army, is destroying bridges like these, potentially to prepare for what western analysts call a controlled fighting withdrawal from ....
Negotiations around the table? no i m negotiations around the table? i157 i m not confident about it all. as i said it very much depends on how the anticipated ukrainian counterattacks of the spring go. if they make their slow progress so that we are in a genuine world war i situation than i think pressure towards some sort of negotiations will be much harder to resist. if on the other hand ukrainians make good progress as they did last year and begin to move, for example, towards taking crimea, then the whole situation changes and we are looking at a much more fluid situation, one where they will not want to enter negotiations because they are winning and who knows what could happen then. what knows what could happen then. what are wa . ner knows what could happen then. what are wagner and knows what could happen then. what are wagner and getting out of all of this besides money? i’m are wagner and getting out of all of this besides money? are wagner and getting out of all of thi ....
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