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💫 Ukrainian forces have made advances on parts of frontline near Bakhmut, official says
Counterattacking Ukrainian forces have advanced up to 1,400 metres at a number of sections of the front line near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day, a military spokesperson said on Saturday.The advance is the latest in a series of similar gains reported this week by Kyiv near Bakhmut, which Russia said it had fully captured last month after the bloodiest and longest battle since it began its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
“We’re trying … to conduct strikes on the enemy, we’re counterattacking. We’ve managed to advance up to 1,400 metres on various sections of the front,” the spokesperson for the eastern military command said when asked about fighting near Bakhmut.
Serhiy Cherevaty, the official, said in televised comments that Russian forces were trying to counterattack but that they had not been successful, Reuters reported.
Ukrainian forces, he added, had inflicted heavy Russian troop casualties and destroyed military hardware in the area.