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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his forces are continuing to inflict heavy losses on attacking Russian fighters in the besieged front-line city of Bakhmut, where Kremlin-backed mercenaries concede the fight is growing more difficult as they approach the city center, bombarded by artillery and tank fire.

Ukraine killed “more than 1,100” Russian fighters in Bakhmut in the past week, Zelensky said in his nightly address, while 1,500 others were out of action because of the severity of their injuries. Russian equipment and ammunition depots were also destroyed, he said. The Washington Post could not independently verify his claims. Analysts have said the months of bloody fighting in Bakhmut have been costly for both sides.

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Posted by GOP_Tiger

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Posted on 3/13/23 at 7:43 am to GOP_Tiger

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Russia still does not know exactly who is behind the attacks on the Nord Stream, said Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in a commentary for the Arguments and Facts weekly:

As I said, if Nord Stream was a Russian false flag operation, then it's a really bad one. Cuz the whole point of a false flag is to blame someone else.

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Posted by IAmNERD

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Posted on 3/13/23 at 8:58 am to GOP_Tiger

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Amid continued skepticism that holding Bakhmut is beneficial to Ukraine, Zelensky continues to insist that it is.

If the Bakhmut map posted a couple pages ago showing the different units is accurate, those Territorial Defence units in the eastern part of the salient have got to be getting pretty antsy.

I just don't understand it. Yes, they're taking out thousands of Wagner conscripts along with some Russian regulars here and there, but just looking at all those units in the area on the UA side is crazy. They've had plenty of time to fight out of there and still inflict significant losses on the Russians. They're flirting with getting a lot of their force captured or killed if just one or two things go wrong. Granted, we don't have the information the decision makers have, but I just don't get it.

Maybe those brigades with the Leopards really are forming up to the west for an assault and the UA forces in Bakhmut have been told they must hold until the counter. Just seems like you could pull back and regroup without incurring so many losses. But, I'm just an armchair general.

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Posted by Celery

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Posted on 3/13/23 at 10:49 am to GOP_Tiger

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Ukraine killed “more than 1,100” Russian fighters in Bakhmut in the past week, Zelensky said in his nightly address

Ukraine is holding Bakhmut to kill 157 Russians a day. That is a lot of people, no doubt, but relative to overall casualties it doesn’t seem like an overwhelming amount.

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