The small city has long had more symbolic than strategic value for both sides
About 55 kilometers north of the Russian-held regional capital of Donetsk, Bakhmut was an important industrial center, surrounded by salt and gypsum mines and home to about 80,000 people before the war, in a country of more than 43 million.
“The enemy failed to surround Bakhmut. They lost part of the heights around the city. The continuing advance of our troops in the suburbs greatly complicates the enemy’s presence,” said Hanna Maliar, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister. “Our troops have taken the city in a semi-encirclement, which gives us the opportunity to destroy the enemy.”
Some analysts said that even Ukraine’s tactical gains in the rural area outside urban Bakhmut could be more significant than they seem. After fierce fighting for weeks, Ukrainian units had made their first advance in the vicinity of Bakhmut since it was invaded nine months ago. Satellite imagery released this week shows infrastructure, apartment blocks and iconic buildings reduced to rubble.
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