General Oleksandr Syrsky visited Bakhmut on Friday, his second visit in less than a week, with official photos released confirming the phased defense is a planned operation.
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General Oleksandr Syrsky visited Bakhmut on Friday, his second visit in less than a week, with official photos released confirming the phased defense is a planned operation.
In Bakhmut, Russian troops are losing seven times more soldiers than the Ukrainian forces
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Source story: day-374a-2023-03-04