How to pronounce“bakmut”in English

bakmut and as was announced last week they've also been making progress taking a number of small villages south of belka zoviska officials say Ukraine is

bakmut yes they but we are talking hundreds of meters just to give you an idea but back

bakmut in Ukraine which they've been on the verge of taking for ages the conscription is biting the economies in a mess and there's a sort of cognitive

bakmutus

those who emerged from bakmut but as one of the Medics who treated them explained the survivors had been deeply marked by the experience I was like a witness of

city of bakmut which Russian forces seized control of earlier this year our defense correspondent Jonathan Beale now reports from Eastern Ukraine

also fighting around bakmut in the Northeast if we zoom in we can get a sense of an advance that's taken place around

in the city of bakmut there are also reports of heavy fighting in the zaparesia area military experts say the area will be the focus of Ukraine's

going on in bakmut well it's hard to know because we have to rely on the claims of both sides uh

to deny reports that bakmut had fallen to Russian forces the battle in the eastern city is the longest of the war so far Moscow claims it now has control

the battle for bakmut it is the longest

know these names of Bakmutin Diva and places like that where the Russian tactic was simply just to throw men and lives at the problem and eventually

Ukrainian progress not far away near bakmut the front line here has been

to to his troops in bakmut yes it feels like doesn't it that the the focus is Shifting eastwards in

the Trap but they're in trouble bakmut could be encircled

fighting here near the town of bakmut is as ferocious as ever Rough and Ready treatment for this Soldier who's got a chunk of shrapnel in

that the units committed in bakmut like the third storm Brigade here are not

the Eastern front lines around bakmut and also the western parts of zaparisia and in the eastern part of Donetsk in particular around the town of bouleda

some 150 kilometers Southwest of bakmut all of this though has not been verified

are dropping back uh near bakmut he's always trying to do the Russian the the

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

was their intention to take bakmut in August talk me through the progress as we watch the map unfold I mean the main thing I'll bring in here

does not occupy the embattled city of bakmut it comes after conflicting reports of who is now in control of the eastern city Russian President Putin has

threatening to withdraw his Wagner mercenaries from bakmut which is a key

effective in helping the Russians take the town of bakmut after a long hard fought battle they then retreated and handed it over to regular Russian forces

Eastern Front their military saying their forces are advancing around bakmut and further I'll come back to you John in a moment or two but of course so much

inevitable that we spoke to Mr danilov about the situation in bakmut the

Ukrainian officials have dismissed claims that the city of bakmut has fallen to Russia that's after Wagner mercenary said that they'd started

key of James if you could explain something for us bakmut is a small City population just over 70 000.

that Ukrainian troops were still fighting on the outskirts of bakmut I was down in that area myself a day or so ago and I spoke to many uh Ukrainian

zielinski about what happened in the eastern city of bakmut he was

Brigade provided some of the troops that took part in the year-long struggle for bakmut their drone company captured these images of a battle that's claimed

president zielinski has been visiting Ukrainian Special Forces near the city of bakmut as Kiev continues its counter-offensive Mrs zelenski praised

he's lionized by his troops and now his eyes are firmly set on retaking bakmut

Ukraine's Ground Forces says they're close to surrounding the eastern city of bakmut Ukraine has disputed Russia's claims to have taken full control of the

Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse who joins us from Kiev and let's talk about bakmut James and the significance what we think is going on there

supporting him to explain why he has his forces have still not captured bakmut

aerial attacks ahead of an expected offensive by Ukraine a Ukrainian General in bakmut said Russia had intensified its shelling of the devastated City too

let's turn to Ukraine now where kiev's forces have been praised by president zielinski for their advances around bakmut the city of huge symbolic

behind the wheel The Man simply known as ghosts he tells me his team of snipers are all known as the ghosts of bakmut because

you say president zelenski has been making another visit to Frontline positions really he was last in bakmut at the start of the year when his forces

Ukraine's counter-offensive has been underway for a month with heavy fighting in places like bakmut but progress has been slower than hoped Ukraine is short

units they had been out of the front line since last month after taking heavy casualties during the fighting for bakmut yes expanding them now implies

in Russia as a nationalist hero one who would fight harder in Ukraine but battles like in bakmut led to Growing tension between pragosian and

to be said has been rather slow fighting is also continuing around the eastern city of bakmut we've talked a lot about that in recent weeks most of that is

creeps Along on that southern front and in the dombas to the north and south of bakmut it's keeping its strategic Reserve centrally placed so it can

in Ukraine mercenaries who have been fighting on behalf of Russia for the Eastern town of bakmut say that they're withdrawing and handing their positions

now though we start with Ukraine and officials there have dismissed claims that the city of bakmut has fallen to Russia that's after Wagner mercenaries

Russia's Wagner mercenary group says its forces have begun withdrawing from the Ukrainian city of bakmut the head of the group evgeny Prague says its positions