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Ukraine has pushed Russian forces off a key road in Bakhmut, Ukrainian officer claims
From CNN's Mariya Knight and Kostan Nechyporenko
Russian forces have been pushed out of one of the key roads in the
contested eastern city of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian military official said Saturday.
Ukrainian soldiers “managed to push the enemy away” from "the road of life" in Bakhmut for a “considerable distance,” making it impossible for Russia to keep the road under fire control, said Yuriy Fedorenko, a Ukrainian military officer.
Ukrainian forces have “improved their position” in the city, Fedorenko added, though he acknowledged "the fighting is tough."
He said Ukraine is "holding the line in the most difficult areas" and have had some tactical successes.
According to Fedorenko, Russia’s forces are “constantly conducting assaults in the Bakhmut direction and are constantly trying to advance.”
Some context: CNN has not been able to independently verify Fedorenko's claims.
It has been difficult to determine exactly where each military's troops stand during the
grueling fight for Bakhmut, and Kyiv and Moscow have often offered differing reports on the status of fighting on the ground.
Ukraine's top generals
have claimed in recent weeks that Russian forces are depleted in Bakhmut. A Ukrainian counteroffensive could soon be launched, the generals say, raising the prospect of an unlikely turnaround in
the besieged city.
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Ukrainian military says it repelled over 50 Russian attacks over the past day
From CNN's Kostan Nechyporenko
The Ukrainian military has repelled more than 50 Russian attacks over the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed in an update Saturday.
The majority of the repelled attacks were concentrated in communities of the eastern Donetsk region, the General Staff said, including the
embattled city of Bakhmut and the towns of Avdiivka, Lyman and Marinka.
This map shows the latest state of control in Ukraine: