The small town of Bakhmut in Donetsk county is in the middle of one of the most brutal battlefields in Ukraine. The ground here is no longer frozen, but saturated with water on Tuesday after early snow melting. Ukrainians call the transition to spring Rasputitsa. The “Gjørme generalen” is known for taking previous invasion forces by surprise on their way into Ukraine and western Russia, by turning roads into rivers and fields into marshes. Top General Syrskyi nevertheless writes in the messaging app Telegram that the Russian forces are pressing on. The number of enemy soldiers is increasing, according to the authorities. This is how it looked in the Kharkiv area on Saturday, around three hours north of Bakhmut. Photo: Vadim Ghirda / AP – Despite significant losses, the enemy has thrown in the most prepared attack troops to Wagner, who are now trying to break through the defense of our soldiers and surround the city, he writes further. This information has not been independently confirmed. If the enemy wins, there will be more The front line at Bakhmut stretched from the village of Paraskoviivka in the north through the eastern part of the town and south to the Russian-occupied village of Orytne, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. The website supernova+, which follows the war in Ukraine closely, has created a map of the battle for Bakhmut, based on the information they have received. This is a map that the website Supernova+ has made of the battles around Bakhmut. The red area is Russian forces, the yellow Ukrainian. In the middle lies the city of Bakhmut itself. Photo: Supernova+ If Russia manages to take control of the city, this will be seen as a great symbolic victory, even if it has little strategic value. Zelenskyj has previously said that the Ukrainians will fight in Bakhmut as long as they can. In his evening speech on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the situation in Bakhmut “is becoming increasingly difficult”. – The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions for entrenchment and defense. Photo: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND AEI’S CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT / news (Updated 27.02.2022) Photo: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND AEI’S CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT / news (Updated 27.02.2022) Fighting in the mud A city in Donetsk- region, the news agency Reuters has met Ukrainian soldiers sitting in trenches. – Both sides stick to their positions, because as you can see, spring leads to mud. It is therefore impossible to get there, said Ukrainian Mykola (59). Ukrainian soldiers struggle to free a military vehicle from a mud hole. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters He is responsible for a Ukrainian missile system, and follows along on a tablet that receives the coordinates they are to shoot at. Several of their military vessels are stuck in the mud, according to the agency. In the zigzag-shaped trench, among others, is team leader Volodymyr (25), who says the soldiers are ready for all kinds of weather. – When we’ve got a goal, it means we have to crush it. As early as December, has a big problem with getting on the lead. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters On Tuesday, the Kremlin said again that Russia is open to negotiating an end to the Ukraine war, but that new “territorial realities” must be taken into account, according to Reuters. This applies to the four Ukrainian regions that Russia claims it has annexed through referendums. Kyiv and the West have rejected these votes as illegal.
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