Russian forces carried out relentless attacks on Bakhmut on Wednesday, trying to encircle the small eastern Ukrainian city and claim their first major prize for more than half a year after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
"I can hardly move my legs - they barely move - from the stress of the situation," he said. "As long as my home is intact and I am not hurt, I will stay here.""We won't give up Bakhmut. We will hold on to it until the very last," a 25-year-old army medic headed towards the front told Reuters. "Glory to Ukraine, death to the enemies."
Russia's state-run RIA news agency released a video clip it said showed Russian Su-25 fighter jets roaring over Bakhmut. After losing extensive territory in the second half of 2022, Russian forces have been replenished by hundreds of thousands of reservists called up since September. Its boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has accused the top brass of the regular Russian army of treason for inadequately supplying his men in one of the biggest signs of internal conflict in Moscow.
Ukrainians and Russians traditionally view March 1 as the first day of spring. Already, frozen ground has melted at the front, bringing the "rasputitsa" - a season of sucking black mud notorious in military history for destroying armies attempting to attack across the territory of Ukraine and western Russia.
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