Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, said that Russian troops to make territorial gains in the city of Bakhmut by advancing over the corpses of their fallen com…
Russian forces desperate to capture the strategically important city of Bakhmut in the contested Donbas region are trying to advance over the corpses of their own fallen soldiers, Ukraine’s top general said.Facebook page
Zaluzhnyi said that he told US Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the difficult situation on the frontline in their first phone call of the year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month visited the battered, blood-soaked city, which he dubbed a “fortress” — and hailed the soldiers defending it as heroes.
Analysts argued that the costs associated with the “grinding, attrition-based combat” far outweigh any operational advantages.
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