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John Psaropoulos

BIZARRE: Ukraine strikes back in bakhmut as russia wrangles with wagner - What They Never Told You

People shelter inside a subway station during an air raid alert in Kyiv, on May 4, 2023 [File: Alina Smutko/Reuters]

In the 63rd week of the war, Ukraine said its armed forces broke through advancing Russian formations northwest of Bakhmut, the city Moscow’s forces have been trying to capture for nine months.

Geolocated footage showed Ukrainian troops counterattacking near Khromove and Bila Hora, settlements west and southwest of Bakhmut that Russian forces have been trying to seize in order to encircle the city.

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