Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said during a trip to Poland that Ukrainian troops could pull out of Bakhmut if they were at risk of being cut off
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
The Ukrainian leader told a news conference in Poland that Kyiv's forces in Bakhmut sometimes advanced a little only to be pushed back by Russian forces, but that they remained inside the city.Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, has been one of the bloodiest and longest battles of Russia's full-scale invasion, now in its second year. Ukrainian forces have held out against a Russian onslaught there with heavy losses on both sides.
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