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Russia - Ukraine War: The Battle For Bakhmut Continues

 

Reuters: Ukrainian troops holding line at Bakhmut appeal for help as global security meeting starts 

NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine/MUNICH (Reuters) -Ukrainian soldiers fighting to hold off a Russian push on the small eastern city of Bakhmut pleaded for more weapons from the outside world as senior Western leaders met in Munich on Friday to assess the year-long war shaking Europe. 

"Give us more military equipment, more weapons, and we will deal with the Russian occupier, we will destroy them," said Dmytro, a serviceman standing in the snow near Bakhmut which Russia's Wagner mercenary group is attacking. 

Nearly one year into the invasion, President Vladimir Putin's troops are intensifying assaults in the east.  

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WNU Editor: Russia's Wagner Group's Prigozhyn believes it will take another month or two before Bakhmut is surrounded (see tweet and video below):

 
 
Russia - Ukraine War: The Battle For Bakhmut Continues  
 
 
 
 
 
 


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