Bakhmut is a 'fortress' that is 'part of a heavily fortified line of defense,' Russian envoy Dmitry Polyanskiy told Newsweek.
and intensifying clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces have left Bakhmut, which had a pre-war population of 70,000, a shell of its former self. According to90 percent of Bakhmut's residents have fled, with the 8,000 who remain subject to daily fire.
In launching the war, which Putin still calls a"special military operation," the Russian leader said one of his main objectives was to"liberate" Donbas, a"I know that there is no way to liberate Donbas without capturing Bakhmut and I know that liberation of Donbas is one of the tasks of our military operation," Polyanskiy said on Tuesday.
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