Bakhmut
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| Area | 416 |
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| Weather | -7°C, Wind N at 16 km/h, 65% Humidity |
| Population | 77,177 (2015) |
| Hotels | View hotels |
| Local time | Saturday 15:41 |
| City rights | 1783 |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
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| ID | 2454072 |
About Bakhmut
Bakhmut formerly Artemivsk/Artyomovsk, is a city of regional significance in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. On 4 February 2016 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirmed the name change of the city by returning to the original one.
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... " He also presented a battle flag from the destroyed city of Bakhmut - the site of the longest, and possibly bloodiest, battle in Russia s invasion of Ukraine...
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... The Ukrainian General Staff has reported that Ukrainian forces have conducted offensive operations south and north of what is left of the eastern city of Bakhmut - most of which has been under Russian control...
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... The attempt to seize Bakhmut - a small city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 people - is puzzling...
Ukraine war: Saboteurs cross into Russia's Belgorod, governor says
... However Mr Putin s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that efforts were underway to eliminate the sabotage group, and said its purpose was to draw attention away from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut - which a Russian mercenary group after months of intense and bloody fighting...
Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut
...Russian mercenaries are in full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, their chief says - a claim immediately dismissed by Ukrainian officials...
Bakhmut: Wagner raises Russian flag but Ukraine fights on
...The head of Russia s Wagner mercenary group says he has raised a Russian flag over Bakhmut s city hall in Ukraine...
Street fighting in Bakhmut but Russia not in control - deputy mayor
...By Laura GozziBBC NewsRussian and Ukrainian forces are fighting in the streets of Bakhmut - but Russia does not control the eastern city, its deputy mayor has said...
Ukraine latest: Numerous Bakhmut attacks still being repelled, says Kyiv
... Russian forces claim they are about to take the eastern city of Bakhmut - the focus of intense fighting for many months...
Bakhmut: Wagner raises Russian flag but Ukraine fights on
The Head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he has raised a Russian flag over Bakhmut 's City Hall in Ukraine.
In a night-time video, Yevgeny Prigozhin said Bakhmut was now Russian " in a legal sense".
However he admitted Ukrainian forces were still concentrated in western districts.
Ukraine dismissed the video as a stunt and insisted its army still holds Bakhmut - an eastern City which Russia has spent months trying to capture.
" The Enemy has not stopped its assault of Bakhmut . However, Ukrainian defenders are courageously holding The City as they repel numerous enemy attacks, " The General Staff of The Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
Analysis by the said that, as of Sunday, Ukraine still held much of The City - although Russian troops were attempting to envelop it from The South and east.
According to the ISW, The City council building is in part of The City recently claimed by Russia, as it approaches from The East .
Wagner - officially called a private military Company - has suffered heavy losses during fighting in Bakhmut .
Many of its recruits are convicts released from Russian prisons drafted in to swell The Group 's numbers.
Troops from the regular Russian military are also fighting in Bakhmut , as well as the Wagner troops.
Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have died in The Fight for control of The City - and it's thought Russian losses have been
Bakhmut has little strategic value, but Ukraine has seen it as an important drain on Russia's military equipment and manpower.
Russian commanders hope taking Bakhmut might give them a springboard for further territorial gains.
As the UK Ministry of Defence noted in the larger urban areas of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk".
The Bbc has not been able to verify the footage posted by Mr Prigozhin.
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