BBCNEWS Newsday June 4, 2024 23:04:00
In what's now the longest battle of this war, ukrainian forces have defended bakhmut. the eastern city is now largely in ruins and largely in russian hands. in particular in the hands of fighters like these, from the wagner mercenary group, whose leader, yevgeny prigozhin, claimed to have full control here. "from house—to—house," he said, "we took the whole city" — something that ukrainian commanders and leaders denied. translation: bakhmut is not occupied by the russian - federation as of today. there are not two or three ways of interpreting those words. what's clear is that tens of th...
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