![]() Nonetheless, Syrskyi was reported as saying Tuesday that the situation in Bakhmut was "extremely tense." "That's pretty unrealistic an assessment," Samuel Ramani, a geopolitical analyst and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told CNBC, " unfortunately, I do agree with Zelenskyy that the situation in Bakhmut is getting more and more difficult." On Monday, Yan Gagin, an advisor and spokesperson for the acting head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, a pro-Russian separatist area in eastern Ukraine, told Russia's Tass news agency that Russian forces had cut off the ammunition and manpower supplies of the Ukrainian forces in Artemovsk, the Russian name for Bakhmut. Still, Russian officials continue to claim that their forces are encircling and even entering the city. Due to the sheer scale of its bombardment and manpower thrown at Bakhmut, Russian forces have made incremental gains in the surrounding area and have gradually encircled the city, defense analysts suggest, although Ukraine's armed forces continue to insist that they are repelling Russian attacks on Bakhmut and the surrounding settlements. ![]()
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