WORLD NEWS | UK: Russian advances in Bachmut could cost big

KIEV, March 11 (AP) — Russian troops made progress on the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut, a key objective of Moscow’s months-long campaign in eastern Ukraine, resulting in staggering casualties, but if no further steps are taken Without drastic measures, their attacks would be difficult to sustain, British military officials said in an assessment on Saturday.

The Ministry of Defense said in its latest regular Twitter update that forces from the Kremlin-controlled paramilitary Wagner Group had seized much of eastern Bakhmut, with a river flowing through the city center now marking the front line.

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However, the update added that Wagner’s army advance will be “extremely challenging” as Ukraine has already destroyed the main bridge over the river, while Ukrainian sniper fire from fortifications further west has thinned out the open space in between” Killing Zone.”

Meanwhile, supply lines for Ukrainian troops and mining towns remained vulnerable to “continuous Russian attempts to outflank defenders from the north and south,” as Russian forces attempted to close in on them in flanking operations, the ministry said.

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Meanwhile, Russian military bloggers and other pro-Kremlin Telegram accounts claimed on Friday that Russian troops entered a metal processing plant northwest of Bakhmut.

Late Friday, a Washington-based think tank also cited geolocation footage showing Russian troops within 800 meters of the AZOM factory, a densely built and heavily fortified complex.

The Institute for War Research assessed that Moscow’s apparent focus on capturing the plant, rather than opting to “encircle the wider west of Bakhmut” by attempting to capture nearby villages, could inflict another wave of Russian casualties.

Repairs continued across Ukraine on Saturday, two days after a massive Russian missile and drone attack killed six people and left hundreds of thousands without power.

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Ukrenergo said in a Facebook post that scheduled power outages continued in the Kharkov and Zhytomyr regions of northwestern and northeastern Ukraine, as well as parts of Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolayev provinces in the southeastern part of the country.

The company added that the situation in Zhytomyr was particularly challenging, with some consumers still unable to access the internet.

Russian shelling on Saturday set a car ablaze as it was driving through the southern city of Kherson, killing one person inside and wounding two others, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in a Telegram post.

Earlier, authorities reported that Russian shelling over the past 24 hours had killed at least five people and wounded 19 others in Ukraine’s Kherson and Donetsk regions.

Bakhmut’s eastern province of Donetsk has been at the center of fighting in recent months, while parts of the Ukrainian-held Kherson region have been shelled daily by Russian troops stationed across the Dnieper. (Associated Press)

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