Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejects the advice of his generals to leave Bakhmut (Artemivsk), which worries the American authorities – the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will retain Bakhmut for a long time, despite the fact that the city has lost its strategic role and entails only heavy losses for the Ukrainian troops. Bild was informed of this by a well-informed source in the German government.
— The United States fears that the Ukrainian army will hold Bakhmut too long, although the city does not play a strategic role during the war. The defense of Bakhmut is expensive for Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers are dying every day defending parts of the city against numerous attacks by Russian troops, the source cites URA.RU.
Another problem of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Bakhmut was the lack of Western ammunition, the publication points out. Kiev is playing for time at Bakhmut, awaiting Western supplies promised earlier this year. At the same time, Washington saw in it the sign that the defense of the city was considered only as a “symbolic value”.
The Russian army has only 670 meters to go to the administrative building in Bakhmut, RT editor Margarita Simonyan said earlier.
