Ukrainians say making gradual gains north and south of Bakhm

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/6/10/ukraine-live-news-zelenskyy-says-counteroffensive-taking-place?update=2236031

Ukrainians say making gradual gains north and south of Bakhmut: AJ correspondent

Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reporting from Kramatorsk, Ukraine says he has visited the large village of Chasiv Yar with a Ukrainian artillery unit. It’s the first large settlement about 10-15km (six to nine miles) before Bakhmut.

“It is key because it is one of the big lines of both defence and now according to Zelenskyy, offence, as part of this counteroffensive,” Stratford said.

“What we were shown were artillery positions that were firing on Russian positions to the south of Bakhmut in what military analysts call softening operations, basically probing areas for weaknesses in Russian defence before pushing forward.

“[The Ukrainians] were telling us that they were making gradual gains both to the south of Bakhmut and to the north as well, coming in from the north in an area we believe to be around the town of Soledar.

“Bakhmut is completely controlled according to Russians, by Russian forces. The Ukrainians dispute this and they are now saying that they are pushing from the south to around 1km a day into those Russian positions and they told us that could be anything from 5 metres one day to 500 metres another day. They’re finding it difficult to do that.”

 

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