By Eliza Popova
Russian propaganda brings fighting to the fortress city as the second "battle for Stalingrad", which is why the Kremlin throws there almost all the forces to declare to the Russians for the first time in the last 10 months, though about some "victory". A spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces Sergey Cherevaty told this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
"All efforts have focused precisely to capture our positions or knock out Ukrainian units from Bakhmut, as well as take fire control and capture ways leading to the city. The opportunity to deliver provisions, ammunition, medicines, equipment and evacuated ", - he said.
According to the secret materials of the Pentagon, which came to the network, the United States advised Ukraine to leave Bakhmut since January, however, the military command of Ukraine decided to continue its defense to exhaust the enemy's strength and prevent it from further expanding the front. "In the Bakhmut direction against us, 25. 6 thousand personnel, 65 tanks, 450 armored vehicles, 154 guns, 56 rocket launchers.
According to the newspaper, Moscow put itself another deadline on the occupation of Bakhmut - May 9, after which Putin may declare that all the goals stated in Ukraine in Ukraine were fulfilled by the Ukrainian army. In the event that the Russian Federation announces the end of the war before the Armed Forces counter -offensive, there is a risk that world leaders can begin to persuade Kiev to hold peace talks instead of the start of a military operation.
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