The long and grinding fight for the city has resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.
in this current stage of the war, which is approaching its one-year anniversary next month.
Denys Yaroslavskyi, who commands a unit in Bakhmut, said on national television Monday that if Ukraine's military leadership does decide to withdraw from the city,"that would be with the only purpose of saving lives of our servicemen," according toUkrainian servicemen walk along a street in the city of Bakhmut on January 26. In the inset, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference on January 11.
story also quoted another Ukrainian commander, this one unnamed, who said that"many friends" had been lost in defending Bakhmut and that the armed forces don't want to lose the city now.Yaroslavskyi warned that"super-qualified" Russian troops were aiding the Russian mercenary forces, which have been playing a key role in the Bakhmut fighting, in fights against the towns surrounding the city.A January 28 campaign assessment from the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S. think tank, drew a similar conclusion. The ISW
that conventional Russian forces were now participating in the fighting around Bakhmut to"reinvigorate the offensive there" after Wagner Group forces failed to make"significant gains" following their capture of the nearby town of Soledar in mid-January., which is several miles from Bakhmut. It wasn't until last week that Ukraine acknowledged its withdrawal from the town.
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