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, a Kyiv thinktank, the Russian military command has recently changed its tactics in Bakhmut. Soldiers were now launching continuous and rolling assaults that sometimes lasted “for 10 hours”, it said.
Ukraine’s hold on Bakhmut appears increasingly precarious. Most analysis believe Ukrainian units will be forced to withdraw if Russian troops capture the T0504 highway – a key supply route – or break through to the Berkhiv reservoir. Last autumn, Ukraine launched two spectacular counter-offensives. It seized back almost all of Kharkiv oblast in the north-east of the country, and the regional capital of Kherson in the south, plus surrounding territory on the right bank of the Dnipro River.
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