‘If you don’t burrow in you die pretty quickly’: the relentless battle for Bakhmut

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Ukrainian soldiers who have been holding off a Russian offensive around the city describe intense fighting

leh Bendyk showed off a video taken in Ukraine’s eastern forests. It shows a group of soldiers from Bendyk’s 103rd brigade sheltering in a sandy trench. Around them a battle rages. There are explosions, booms, and the rattle of small arms fire. A grad missile crashes down among the pine trees, in a large orange fireball.

The Russian army and Wagner have been making incremental gains in the area. In January they took the nearby town of Soledar. So far they have been unable to capture the ruined centre of Bakhmut, despite multiple attempts.after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion Other videos filmed by his brigade show soldiers trudging cheerfully through thick snow, trundling along in an armoured personnel carrier, and shrieking in terror when a military helicopter flies low above their car, missing them by a few metres. “Suka Bliad!”, one serviceman screams – “Fucking hell!”Bendyk also shared with the Guardian footage of an enemy tank captured in the city of Izium during last autumn’s dramatic counter-offensive in the north-east Kharkiv province.

The Ukrainian army had grown expert at digging, Serhii Hnezdilov – a 22-year-old volunteer soldier – explained. He said the Russians would be unable to advance much and described every city in Donetsk oblast

 

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