Battle Bakhmut, Kiev admits: Russian troops make progress

KIEV - Confirmation has come from Kiev that Moscow's forces have achieved some success in the front-line city of Bakhmut, the city in Donbass for weeks at the center of the bloodiest clashes between the two countries. "Russian troops are achieving a series of successes in the field, which are allowing them to advance in the south and south-west of the center." According to experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), this emerges from the analysis of "geolocated footage released on 28 and 29 March". However, adds the American think tank, neither side is yet in full control of the territory and both have suffered heavy losses. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "the Russian army has had some success in the actions it has carried out to storm the city of Bakhmut". Then he added in his night report, that "the defenders hold the city and repulse numerous enemy attacks".