How to pronounce“bakmud”in English

of bakmud the head of the group unfilled a Russian flag at bakmud's City Hall and

looking at images from bakmud that show the extent of the destruction in these months of fighting with the BBC's Olga malchefska

here in bakmud I'm given therefore what you've said why does Russia simply not say it is not worth the cost in resources and in human lives and pull

the battle for bakmud is in many ways do we get a sense of which way the balance

we have practically surrounded bakmuds only one route out of the city remains if earlier we were fighting against the professional Army now we are

progress near the eastern city of bakmud our correspondent Hugo bachega is in Kiev Russia carried out another wave of their strikes on Ukrainian cities overnight

that what had happened near bakmud was actually a route

that approaches the hotly contested town of bakmud well Mr prigine has called it partially successful we should say at this stage the BBC hasn't been able to

miles from solidar on the approach to bakmud and you'll notice as we go closer in that there is this wooded area close to the farm track which corresponds to

these are the guys who took bakmud in the legal sense it's ours the enemy

sir what is the situation in bakmud well as we've heard it it's it's pretty confusing uh but there's clearly growing

forward command posts not necessarily bakmud okay James Landell in Kiev thank you very much

are on the Northern outskirts of bakmud but they've not taken yet so this battle

two cities in Ukraine Russia may claim bakmuda's death but in

pregozian's videos this one says Wagner's withdrawal from bakmud has begun in this interview he questions what Russia's Invasion has achieved he

of the Russian mercenary group Wagner we are withdrawing units from bakmud

to hold it and in and of itself as we said bakmud not strategically important but it will give it greater access give Russia greater access to all of that

claims about who controls the eastern city of bakmud Ukraine's Deputy defense minister says its troops are still advancing on the outskirts of the

rejected claims by Russia that it has occupied bakmud here he is explaining why Ukraine cannot share the details of his strategy inside the city

long time we've been talking about the Battle for bakmud where much of the uh the the war the effort has been concentrated uh but I think in the next

confirmation that uh this claim was true and obviously a bakmud has been the main

mariopol and from his perspective taking control of bakmud was some sort of edfix

north uh was a really good objective for Russia to unlock the attack on bakmud itself but you see how slow and creeping this progression has been for a

morning of that mercenary group that is claiming that it is in control of bakmud yeah Ben so we had this claim from the head of the Wagner Group which is being

crane has drawn a line in the mud and that line is bakmud no matter the

forces the Kremlin is in dire need of some kind of success so seizing bakmud would be a victory it would be a trophy uh something to talk about they also

this conflict uh and so any seizure or capture of part or most of bakmud would

they've called on president zelenski to withdraw his troops from the city of bakmud practice

their men a day we checked the figures they are awful numbers gunned and outnumbered but for now unyielding in bakmud like in the rest of

do that's why evgeny pragosan has been asked to step in the Wagner group has fought in some of the war's fiercest battles including bakmud and it's lost

you've gained ocean the man who runs Wagner he was not about to let the army take credit for this advance and here he is in bakmud in February congratulating

over to the Russian army bakmut has been fought over since last August and Ukraine says its forces still control part of it our verify team has been