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Home / Ukraine / Zelenskyy denies that Russia is in control of Bakhmut: ‘There cannot be 2 or 3 interpretations of this’
Ukraine, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine‑Russia

May 21, 2023

Zelenskyy denies that Russia is in control of Bakhmut: ‘There cannot be 2 or 3 interpretations of this’

Ukraine “tied up a lot of Russian troops in Bakhmut, making it impossible to deploy them to other battle zones” in the wider Donbas region, Rajan Menon, a nonresident scholar in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think tank, previously told Insider.

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