The occupiers are concentrating their main efforts on the Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Maryinka and Shakhtarsk axes. Yesterday, Ukrainian forces repelled 53 Russian attacks in these areas. Bakhmut remains at the center of the fighting, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Another intense video from Bakhmut, by my former @RFERL colleague @Levko_Stek, who is now serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces. https://youtube.com/watch?v=OoIFYtZY89k

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"The Russian infantry charg[ed] in a WWI-style attack across a no man’s land of shredded trees & artillery craters. The Ukrainians popped up & mowed down many of them with machine guns & grenade launchers. Moments later, the scenes were repeated…"

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"In a recent episode recounted by Colonel Palisa, the Russians used a tank to shoot a hole in a wall of one apartment block held by the Ukrainians. Russian soldiers then climbed through the hole to fight room by room." via @AndrewKramerNYT

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Stories from the Battle of Bakhmut are something else. "We were shelled by mortars, tanks & planes. Drones dropped bombs on us. I had to evacuate a severely wounded guy & a dead body from the trenches." Of a 21-man platoon, 18 WIA/KIA in 24 hours.

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Senior Lieutenant Kuzin took his position at the machine gun… Everyone else in his troop lay dead or injured. Suffering from shell-shock and with one arm bandaged, he fired at the waves of Russian soldiers trying to storm his position.

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Spain to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in coming days. Six tanks are to be delivered "in the next few days," and four more will be sent later, when they are repaired.

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