Vicious onslaught, the city of Bakhmut is a key Russian target in the embattled east. Russians seeking to encircle Bakhmut by taking nearby villages & cutting off a key road. Russian forces been pummeling Bakhmut since summer, a city once home to 7,000 people. Control over entire Donbas (Donetsk + Luhansk) a key objective for the Russian Forces. Part of the Donetsk region in the East, Bakhmut is a wine-making and salt-mining city. Luhansk 'liberated' by Russia, Donetsk has witnessed some of the war's heaviest fighting.
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