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Ukrainian troops have launched an offensive in several directions around the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast and made advances, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on June 24.

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[โ€“] nicotinell@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Genuine question, is there even a city still? Surely it's mostly flat fields and piles of rubble by now?

[โ€“] AshDene@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know if it counts as a "city" exactly, but there's still a lot of defensive locations. Concrete apartment buildings can take a hell of a beating and stay standing apparently. Houses are damaged, but they're still cover...

Shitty resolution, but here's a recent video of it: https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/14ac2lu/ukrainian_air_assault_forces_firing_at_russian/