In the following days, Russian forces continued to push towards Bakhmut from the south, with the Ukrainian general staff stating on 14 August that Russian forces had achieved "partial success" near Bakhmut, but offering no specifics. On 4 August, Wagner Group mercenaries managed to break through Ukrainian defenses and reach Patrice Lumumba street on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut. The following day, Ukraine reported that Russian forces had increased airstrikes and shelling of Bakhmut, beginning a ground attack on the southeastern part of the city. Both the Russian Ministry of Defense and pro-Russian Telegram pages claimed that the battle of Bakhmut had begun. On 1 August, Russian forces launched massive ground attacks on settlements south and southeast of Bakhmut. Battle Early shelling and Russian encroachment (August–October 2022) Prior to the battle in Bakhmut, Ukrainian Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskiy claimed that Russia held a five-to-one manpower advantage over Ukraine along the eastern front. Two days later on 27 July, Russian shelling of Bakhmut killed three civilians and wounded three more. On 25 July, Ukrainian forces withdrew from the Vuhlehirska Power Station, along with the nearby town of Novoluhanske, giving Russian and separatist forces a "small tactical advantage" towards Bakhmut. Following the battles of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in early July, Russian and separatist forces captured all of Luhansk oblast, and the battlefield shifted towards the cities of Bakhmut, and Soledar. Shelling of Bakhmut continued throughout the rest of June and July, escalating after the battle of Siversk began on 3 July.
The Russian checkpoint along the highway was later demolished, although fighting resumed on 30 May along the Kostiantynivka- Bakhmut highway, where Ukrainian forces successfully defended the highway.
Meanwhile, Russian forces managed to advance on the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, endangering the remaining Ukrainian troops in the Lysychansk-Sievierodonetsk area. Īfter the fall of Popasna on 22 May, Ukrainian forces withdrew away from the city to reinforce positions at Bakhmut. Starting on 17 May, Russian forces began shelling Bakhmut, killing five people including a two-year-old child. The initial push for Bakhmut was part of an attempt to encircle the Ukrainian forces at the Sievierodonetsk- Lysychansk salient together with another push from the Lyman direction, it would create a pocket and trap Ukrainian forces there. ĭuring the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a key Russian goal was to capture the Donbas region, consisting of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The separatists were expelled to the city's outskirts where clashes continued until July 2014, when they finally retreated from the area. Pro-Russian separatists had captured parts of the city during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine in April, and a Ukrainian special forces unit together with the National Guard were dispatched to expel the separatists from the city. īakhmut, formerly known as Artemivsk, was the site of the 2014 battle of Artemivsk between Ukraine and the self-declared separatist Donetsk People's Republic. The city has been under shelling since May 2022. BackgroundĪn apartment block in Bakhmut after a Russian shelling. The intensity of battles in the Bakhmut sector has been compared to those of World Wars I and II. By this time, much of the front line had descended into positional trench warfare, with both sides suffering high casualties without any significant advances. Attacks on the city intensified in November 2022 as assaulting Russian forces were reinforced by units redeployed from the Kherson front, together with newly mobilized recruits. Īs of late 2022, following Ukraine's Kharkiv and Kherson counteroffensives, the Bakhmut– Soledar front became an important focus of the war, being one of the few front lines in Ukraine where Russia remained on the offensive. The main assault force primarily consists of mercenaries from the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group, supported by regular Russian troops and DPR and LPR separatist elements. While the shelling of Bakhmut began in May 2022, the main assault towards the city started on 1 August after Russian forces advanced from the Popasna direction, following a Ukrainian withdrawal from that front.
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The Battle of Bakhmut is an ongoing series of military engagements in and near the city of Bakhmut between Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces during the larger battle for Donbas. Ust-Ilimsk military commissariat shooting.Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure.
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