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 attempt to seize Bakhmut - a small city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 people - is puzzling...
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... 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...
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...Russian mercenaries are in full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, their chief says - a claim immediately dismissed by Ukrainian officials...
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...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...
Street fighting in Bakhmut but Russia not in control - deputy mayor
By Laura GozziBBC News
Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting in The Streets of Bakhmut - But Russia does not control The Eastern city, its deputy mayor has said.
Oleksandr Marchenko also told The Bbc The Remaining 4,000 civilians are living in shelters without access to gas, electricity or water.
Mr Marchenko said " not a single building" had remained untouched and That The City is " almost destroyed"
Bakhmut has seen months of fighting, as Russia tries to take charge.
Taking The City would be a rare battlefield success in recent months for Russia.
But despite That , The City 's strategic value has been questioned. Some experts say any Russian victory could be pyrrhic - That is, not worth the cost.
After fierce shelling, Russian forces and troops from the Wagner private army appear to have surrounded much of Bakhmut ,.
On Saturday, Russian advances in the northern suburbs have left the Ukraine-held section of The City vulnerable to Russian attacks on three sides.
Mr Marchenko accused the Russians of having " no goal" to save The City and That it wanted to commit " genocide of the Ukrainian people".
" Currently there is no communication in The City so The City is Cut Out , the bridges are destroyed and the tactics That the Russians are using is the tactic of parched land, " Mr Marchenko told the Today programme.
Earlier This Week , Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said That The Situation in the area was becoming " more and more difficult" - although the Ukrainian military
The Commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi , visited Bakhmut on Friday for meetings with local commanders.
" I believe we shouldn't give any inch of Our Land to The Enemy , " Mr Marchenko said. " We should protect Our Land , we should protect our people and we should protect the businesses That are on this land.
" And The Reason why we shouldn't give it to them is because it will be very hard to take it back, to regain the control after Russians capture it. "
On Friday, President Zelensky stressed That artillery and shells were needed to " stop Russia".
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the country's latest package included high-precision Himars artillery rockets and howitzers " which Ukraine is using so effectively".
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
