The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “Major snowstorms bring Bakhmut offensives to a halt on both sides” – below is their description.
The six-month battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest fight of the war so far
Following major snowstorms, large offensives in the area have ground to a halt.
The snow is so debilitating, neither side will be able to launch offensives in Bakhmut in the next coming days.
Once temperatures rise, the snow will melt and turn trench systems into a sea of mud.
In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region fighting in recent months has concentrated on Bakhmut, with Kyiv saying it is holding out in the urban hub to exhaust Russian troops.
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress around 6,000 Wagner Group mercenaries were fighting in Bakhmut.
He said: “They’re conducting combat operations right now in Bakhmut primarily. It’s probably about 6,000 or so actual mercenaries and maybe another 20,000 or 30,000 recruits that they get, many of whom come from prisons.
“They are suffering an enormous amount of casualties in the Bakhmut area. The Ukrainians are inflicting a lot of death and destruction on these guys.”
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