Another chapter was written in the last few days in the Russian invasion of Ukraine: after seven months of brutal fighting and heavy losses, there is a Ukrainian withdrawal from the city of Hamot, which has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invaders.
Media in the country reported that Ukrainian military forces blew up the last bridge leading to the city on Friday and began a coordinated and organized withdrawal from the territory of the city, which before the war was home to nearly 75,000 people in the Donetsk region in the east of the country.
The deputy mayor of the city, Oleksandr Martsenko, announced during the evening hours that the city is not in the hands of the Russian army and that the Ukrainian army forces are conducting house-to-house battles.
"There are battles inside the city and street battles, but thanks to the protection of the Ukrainian army, they have not yet managed to take control of the city. The Russians want to destroy the city. Destroy Bakhmut. I really don't understand why they are doing this," Marchenko said. Last week it was
reported About large fires in the center of the city after the Russian army concentrated artillery fire in order to "soften" the Ukrainian resistance in the center of the city. The Russian army launched an attack on Bakhmut at the beginning of August and the fighting was characterized by static battles between positions and skirmishes, accompanied by incessant artillery shelling.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the "Wagner Group" alongside his forces in Behemoth,
In January, the Russian army managed to capture the mining town of Soldar from the hands of the Ukrainian army, thus cutting off a significant part of the access roads that led from the territory of Ukraine to the city of Bhammot.
According to estimates by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Russia lost between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers in the assault on Bakhmut, as well as a large amount of tanks, cannons and armored vehicles.
But military experts, including the International Institute for the Study of War in Washington, estimated that even when it was tipped to win over Russia, the value of the achievement would be mainly symbolic.
The Ukrainian army has been drawn up for a long time in defensible lines west of the city and the Russian army will find it difficult to take advantage of the occupied territory in order to significantly break through the Ukrainian defense system and crown the main Ukrainian force in the Donbas region.
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