On Saturday, Ukraine and Russia claimed that hundreds of enemy troops had been killed in the previous 24 hours in the battle for Bakhmut, with Kyiv fending off relentless attacks and a small river that bisects the town now marking the new front line.
According to Serhiy Cherevatyi, a Ukrainian military spokesperson, 221 pro-Moscow troops were killed and over 300 were injured in Bakhmut. According to Russia’s defense ministry, up to 210 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Donetsk sector of the frontline.
While Moscow did not specify the number of casualties at Bakhmut, the eastern Donetsk town has been the site of one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the year-long conflict.
Both sides have admitted to suffering and inflicting significant losses in Bakhmut, though the precise number of casualties is difficult to confirm independently.
According to British military intelligence, Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has taken control of most of Bakhmut’s eastern region, an advance that the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed on Wednesday.
