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Prigozhin has acted unilaterally to shame the Russian military and burnish his own reputation. Wagner fighters taken prisoner by the Ukrainians told CNN they ...

The loss of colonels and lieutenant colonels adds to Russian troubles. That the Russians have invested so much in its capture speaks volumes about their poor strategy in this war.” But the focus on Bakhmut may have come at a cost to Russian operations elsewhere. That may explain why Ukrainian forces have been ordered to hold the line. Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine, said last week the Russians “take no account of their losses in trying to take the city by assault. Bakhmut has become an obsession for the Russians in the absence of progress elsewhere, far beyond any strategic rationale. Russia’s mobilization last autumn, recruiting some 300,000 men into uniform, provided a pool of foot soldiers and helped reconstitute units that had suffered heavy losses. The Ukrainians have used Bakhmut to inflict massive losses on the attacking force: by some estimates at a ratio of 7:1. Every meter of Ukrainian land costs hundreds of lives to the enemy.” Prigozhin has acted unilaterally to shame the Russian military and burnish his own reputation. For sure, the end game in Mariupol and other cities taken last year ultimately involved men advancing street by street. They still rely on massive barrages of indirect fire (artillery and howitzers, rockets, aerial bombardment) to pulverize defensive positions.

Ukrainian forces ward off assaults in and around besieged city, says military, while resupply routes become 'increasingly limited'

The Russian defence minister paid a rare visit to Moscow’s forces in Ukraine. Little changed since it was designed in 1869, its continued use as a weapon highlights the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterise much of the war. The UK Ministry of Defence said Ukrainian resupply routes were becoming “increasingly limited”. So I could see General Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff, who’s now been put in charge and overall command in Ukraine itself to be the one, if he could make a sufficiently sensible plan and have the moral courage to see it through, it could be the generals that topple Putin and push him out of the Kremlin. The Ukraine military says Russian troops are trying but failing to surround Bakhmut. “In order to defeat the external enemy, it is necessary to simultaneously overcome the internal one – corruption.” “Regarding [press freedom], as a journalist, I am in such a situation for the first time. But wartime censorship and the army’s role in protecting their country from an existential threat has made reporting on the military a challenge. In terms of the advancement of Russian troops, we practically stopped [it]. You don’t have to defeat an army in detail everywhere on the battlefield. Well, to be honest, I don’t really know the answer to that question. Unfortunately, the Russian Federation did not give up on the plans that they had with regard to Bakhmut.

Ukraine's military said its forces repelled 95 Russian attacks in the Bakhmut area over the previous day. “The situation in Bakhmut can be described as ...

“The situation in Bakhmut can be described as critical,” Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said in a video commentary. - The death toll from a Russian missile attack that hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia rose to 11 after a woman’s body was found in the debris. - A woman and two children were killed in Russian mortar shelling of a village in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, Ukraine’s presidential office said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is already looking ahead to next winter — and how to prepare for more attacks on power infrastructure.

[city of Bakhmut rages on](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/05/bakhmut-ukraine-russia-war-donetsk/?itid=lk_inline_manual_1), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated that officials are preparing for the wider war against Russia to continue long into its second year. [Zelensky calls fight for east ‘painful’ as options dwindle in Bakhmut:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/05/bakhmut-ukraine-russia-war-donetsk/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20) Ukrainian forces are fiercely resisting a Russian push to encircle this besieged city in the eastern Donetsk region and prolonging a fight that has become a symbol of Ukraine’s battlefield defiance, writes Missy Ryan. As the months-long battle for the besieged

BuchaA priest marks one year since eight men were killed by Russian forces. Thibault Camus/Associated Press. Donbas regionUkrainian soldiers ...

With the new jobs it is adding, the plant could become one of Kostenets’s biggest employers. That has Western countries scrambling to find alternative sources, pouring millions of dollars into workarounds that keep the transactions quiet and avoid political fallout and Russian retaliation. But one year into the war, despite an influx of sophisticated Western arms, the Ukrainian military still relies primarily on weapons that fire Soviet-standard munitions. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned Soviet-era arms and ammunition into critically important matériel as Western nations seek to supply Kyiv with the munitions it needs to foil Moscow’s assault. It means more jobs at the Terem ammunition plant on the outskirts of town. In the mud and muck, with frozen patches of earth giving way to sloppy, thick clay, there are many ways to kill and be killed. The full names of the soldiers are being withheld for security reasons. The package came on the same day President Biden and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany vowed that allies would remain united in supporting Kyiv despite the growing concerns that China could move to supply weapons to Moscow. The Center Party, which has traditionally represented the interests of Russian speakers but alienated some of them by criticizing Moscow’s miliary onslaught, came in third place with under 15 percent of the vote. Because of the format of the Estonian political system, coalition governments are almost inevitable. “It is one of the toughest battles,” he said in his nightly address. Russian forces are now attacking the city from three directions in an effort to encircle Ukrainian troops, leaning heavily on assaults by lightly trained fighters including prison conscripts from the Wagner mercenary group.

Russian troops - from Wagner and regular Russian forces - are trying to seize the eastern city from Ukraine. But Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has complained of ...

"They have no goal to save the city... The ISW said the Russian military relied on Wagner in the months-long effort to seize Bakhmut and has since "reinforced Wagner forces in Bakhmut with Russian airborne elements and mobilized personnel". "On the other hand, we are moving forward and the rest [an apparent reference to the Russian military] are forced to somehow catch up in order to save face." "On the one hand, we are pulling the entire Ukrainian army onto ourselves, grinding and destroying it, and do not give it the opportunity to concentrate in other sectors of the front. Russian troops - from Wagner and regular Russian forces - are trying to seize the eastern city from Ukraine. "What if they [the Russian authorities] want to set us up, saying that we are scoundrels, and that's why they don't give us ammunition, they don't give us weapons, and they don't let us replenish our personnel, including from among the imprisoned people?"

It's unclear how much of Bakhmut is controlled by Russian forces, and whether Ukrainain forces are starting to withdraw from parts of the city.

But it added that while Russian sources claim their forces have captured eastern, northern, and southern parts of Bakhmut, and claim to be reporting from positions in eastern Bakhmut, it could not independently verify those claims. This is the basis for talks," showed that the vast majority of plants - 92% to 97%, depending on the predecessor and sowing date - were in relatively good condition," the APK-Inform consultancy quoted a report by the academy as saying, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The winter wheat area sown for the 2023 harvest decreased to around 4.1 million hectares from more than 6 million sown a year earlier because of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. The scientists say the reserves of productive moisture in the soil under winter crops remained "quite significant and did not cause concern". Overall grain output fell to around 54 million tonnes from a record 86 million in 2021. Some have received upgraded sighting systems which will highly likely improve their effectiveness at night, the ministry noted. Meanwhile, shelling on Vuhledar also injured one person while several apartments and houses, as well as an administrative building and a cultural institution, were damaged in the village of Dachne. Ukraine's wheat harvest declined to 20.2 million tonnes in 2022 from 32.2 million tonnes in 2021. CNBC was unable to immediately verify the information in the post. Russia insists it does not target civilian objects. A Ukrainian commander of troops in Bakhmut said on Telegram Sunday that there were "no decisions or orders regarding retreat" and that "the defense is holding" in the city but also characterized the situation in Bakhmut and its outskirts as "very much like hell."

Having catastrophically failed to deter Russian aggression in Ukraine, the western alliance needs a plan to win the war, writes Simon Tisdall.

Turkey’s behaviour is [particularly disloyal](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/turkeys-two-faced-sultan-is-no-friend-of-the-west-its-time-to-play-hardball). [member de facto](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64255249). [ in Warsaw](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/02/21/remarks-by-president-biden-ahead-of-the-one-year-anniversary-of-russias-brutal-and-unprovoked-invasion-of-ukraine/) last month. This question leads back to the fundamental dilemma of the “new Nato”. Yet French and German leaders are sticking to their view that, in the longer term, an [accommodation must be reached](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/politics/nato-alliance-ukraine.html) with Moscow. The western democracies must accept that the wider, head-on confrontation with Moscow that they have striven in vain to avoid is now upon them, exploding around their ears. Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, worried about triggering a wider war, [demurs](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64797212). [voted overwhelmingly](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/01/finland-starts-building-fence-on-russian-border-as-mps-prepare-to-vote-on-nato-bid) last week to press ahead anyway. In his telling, Nato is pursuing a historic goal: “to disband the former Soviet Union and its principal entity, the Russian Federation”. The debate over how far to go, and how quickly, in assisting Ukraine reflects another key problem – Nato’s lack of clearly defined war aims. “Over 40,000 troops, along with significant air and naval assets, are now under direct Nato command” in the east, it says, with “hundreds of thousands more” held in reserve. Conversely, Nato is again locked into a dangerous eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Russia that will probably outlast the current conflict.

Russian troops continue attempts to surround Bakhmut; Ukrainian special forces destroy Russian observation tower in Bryansk.

“If you look at the proposal of the Ukrainians, it is easy to understand that they are ready for peace,” he added. Kraken, a special forces unit, has taken credit for the attack on a tower that was being used to monitor the border with Ukraine. Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, has reported that in the last 24 hours “Russian troops carried out 29 strikes on Donetsk region and shelled 14 settlements in the region”. Russia’s premier tank force is expected to be re-equipped with Soviet-made T-62 tanks first fielded in 1954 to make up for combat losses, the UK ministry of defence has claimed. “It is one of the toughest battles. Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu visited Mariupol, in a rare visit to occupied Ukraine by a senior Moscow figure.

Ukrainian military officials and analysts also reported leaders of Russia's 155th Brigade fighting near the town of Vuhledar, south of Bakhmut, ...

On Monday, he visited the eastern city of Mariupol, captured by Russian forces last year after a months-long siege. For its part, the Russian Defence Ministry on Sunday said Russian forces had hit a command centre of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. Russia says it would be a stepping stone to completing the capture of the Donbas industrial region, one of its most important objectives. The mercenary chief regularly criticises Russia's defence chiefs and top generals. ALSO READ Ukrainian military officials and analysts also reported leaders of Russia's 155th Brigade fighting near the town of Vuhledar, south of Bakhmut, were resisting orders to attack after sustaining severe losses in attempts to capture it.

All the updates from Sunday, March 5: Ukraine says its forces holding off attacks from Russian troops in Bakhmut.

The battle for the Donetsk city is coming down to street-by-street fighting and skirmishes on its outskirts, where Ukrainian forces are fortifying their ...

“They are well aware of the consequences that await Russia after the war, and they are aware of the reasons for Russia’s failures at the present stage,” he said. Vladislav Povyshev, a history teacher from Siberia who now works at a Russian school in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, said his students grew up using the internet — and often understand and see things more clearly than adults, “for better or worse.” [Talking to children who left Russia about the war in Ukraine:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/05/russian-children-war-ukraine-schools/?itid=lk_inline_manual_27) In Russia’s emigre communities outside the country — swelled by hundreds of thousands who have fled in response to the invasion of Ukraine or to avoid conscription — teachers in newly established Russian schools are grappling with how to talk to children about the war, writes Francesca Ebel.

Wagner group oligarch warns entire frontline could collapse amid shortages of ammunition in battle for Ukrainian city.

Russian forces now occupy areas on three sides of the city to the east, north and south – and there is only one road connecting the city with Ukrainian-controlled territory. Russia set its sights on conquering the city last summer and has gradually inched towards the town. It would also place two new Ukrainian-controlled towns west of Bakhmut – Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk – on the frontline. [military analysts](https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1627309436539744258?lang=en) have been predicting that Ukraine would order a tactical withdrawal from Bakhmut, to stem losses and regroup. to the Russian borders and maybe further,” said Prigozhin Though Russian forces are pounding the routes out of the city, they have publicly pleaded with Moscow for more supplies.

Russian shelling destroyed homes and killed one person in northern Ukraine's Kharkiv province on Sunday, the region's governor has said, while fighting ...

It said Ukrainian troops may “conduct a limited and controlled withdrawal from particularly difficult sections of eastern Bakhmut”, while seeking to inhibit Russian movement there and limit exit routes to the west. Associated Press journalists near Bakhmut on Saturday saw a pontoon bridge set up by Ukrainian soldiers to help the few remaining residents reach the nearby village of Khromove. Governor Oleh Syniehubov said at least five homes were razed in the latest attack that left a 65-year-old man dead.

Zaporizhzhia region. The Russian army launched a short-range Iskander ballistic missile against an unnamed community in the region yesterday. The missile, which ...

[donated](https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Y_mlC73DKPhoqBPyt0gf0T?domain=twitter.com) more than one million hryvnas ($27,000) in a single day to purchase three bionic prostheses for a soldier who lost both hands and a leg in battle. Thirty-nine of the victims, she said, were men and 13 were minors. The initiative, spearheaded by Ukraine, received support from Eurojust, the International Criminal Court and a number of countries, including Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia and Romania. The program is designed to help prevent corruption in all spheres of public life, decrease public tolerance for corruption and ensure legal action against perpetrators of corrupt acts. The fundraising campaign was initiated by veteran Volodymyr Sheredeha, who saw that Andrii, the injured soldier, lacked the funds to cover the operation, estimated to cost more than $75,000. [first use](https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/hFOkC82XLQtLryJQtRM3Hk?domain=video.repubblica.it) several weeks ago in northern Ukraine of a “super” glider-borne bomb carrying more than a ton of high explosives designed to destroy highly fortified targets. The Prime Minister emphasized the importance of working with “the Parliament, other stakeholders, and heads of anti-corruption agencies” to keep the document “alive, open to suggestions and additions.” [NBC News](https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/cvOhC68YJOf8D43MtL_L3n?domain=nbcnews.com), the United States is now evaluating two Ukrainian pilots to determine the length of time required to train them to fly advanced aircraft such as F-16 fighter jets. The center, which lacks authority to prosecute but can gather evidence, is set to begin operations in the Hague this summer. Only substantial technological, financial and administrative aid from Ukraine's partners will allow removal of the mines as quickly as possible. The attack also caused extensive damage to a nearby building. The missile, which struck the town center, did not cause any casualties or hit any strategically significant targets but caused a blast wave that damaged nearby buildings.

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine—Shielded by a small hill from Russian positions a half-mile away, a Ukrainian soldier spotted via drone feed a new foxhole that appeared ...

[Wagner paramilitary organization](https://www.wsj.com/articles/wagner-chief-says-eastern-ukraines-bakhmut-is-effectively-surrounded-c7af41d6?mod=article_inline) had crawled through no man’s land to establish a firing position, likely for a grenade launcher. The drone’s camera zoomed to [Russian trenches](https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-war-machine-tested-by-rift-between-military-wagner-group-7e83b016?mod=article_inline) behind. [embattled city of Bakhmut](https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-forces-under-renewed-russian-pressure-seek-to-reinforce-bakhmut-14a5e942?mod=article_inline).

Only five to 10 civilians are fleeing Bakhmut each day compared to as many as 600 when evacuations were at their highest, the city's deputy mayor said.

There is no way we can get there.” Mr Marchenko said there were four medical workers remaining. He said: "The enemy is striking the city with everything they can.

Ukraine's military said Saturday it is holding the front line in the eastern city of Bakhmut, despite facing what the UK Ministry of Defence described as ...

However, a significant hurdle stands in the way of this becoming a reality: Turkey has yet to give the plan its formal and official blessing. "If you look at the proposal of the Ukrainians, it is easy to understand that they are ready for peace. "We told (Ukraine) that they can go for membership into the European Union. “I am the mother of four sons. This is the basis for talks," Scholz said in an interview that aired Sunday. "On the contrary, some new reserves are coming in as reinforcement to hold the defense," said Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in Ukraine's National Guard. Then, in the late spring or early summer, Ukraine "can mount a really strong counteroffensive utilizing the modern equipment that we are now giving them." Asked about the West supplying equipment to Ukraine, the general said: “To be frank, I don’t think we have done enough. The minister accused the Russian side of “behaving extremely unprofessionally” at the nuclear site. “Our position, which we voice on all international platforms, is that any negotiations on ZNPP should be based on: first, demilitarization of the plant, second, withdrawal of (Russian nuclear company) Rosatom employees from ZNPP. “This is a great grief for the whole Zaporizhzhia. Together, let us honor the cherished memory of everyone whose life was cut short forever on that tragic night in March,” Kurtiev

Evacuations from the frontline Ukrainian city of Bakhmut have slowed to a trickle, while Russian troops strike with "everything they can," an official said.

[Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23#h_a6e645dd2d30fbbd53eb3b8cfaddf78c)is set to form a new coalition government after securing an election win on Sunday. [Kostyuk defeated Gracheva 6-3 7-5](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23#h_87b44bd896f55be453f6367bd145b3eb). Zelensky and senior military commanders have vowed to continue to defend the city. [US Secretary of Defense Austin](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23#h_568931c9361ef23ad36d5b40fbbe2aef). [joint infrastructure projects](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23#h_587526a643da332dcf41ef69fd70499b)," with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, according to a readout from the Kremlin published Monday. [Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23#h_cafb0a3deb175ee28a52faeae05b8347)inspected infrastructure projects on a visit to the occupied southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Moscow's defense ministry said on its official Telegram channel Monday.