Russia is 'destroying buildings and positions with air strikes and artillery fire' in Bakhmut, the head of Ukraine's ground forces said.
Russian forces have turned to"scorched earth" tactics as fierce fighting drags on in the ruined eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Kyiv's military has said.
Moscow's troops"switched to so-called scorched earth tactics from Syria," the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrsky, said on Sunday. The Kremlin's soldiers are"destroying buildings and positions with air strikes and artillery fire," he continued. The tactic involves the destruction of assets or resources that could be of use to the enemy force. Ukraine has previously accusedBakhmut has seen some of the heaviest clashes of the Ukraine war, with Russian and Ukrainian troops battling for control of the city for months.
Both Kyiv and Moscow have sustained heavy losses in what has been labeled a"meat-grinder." General Mark Milley, U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, previouslyUkrainian servicemen fire with a D-30 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on March 21, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces are using"scorched earth" tactics in the ruined eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Kyiv's military has said.
Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed head of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, said on Tuesday that Russia was"steadily" moving through Bakhmut,
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