![]() The General Staff claimed the Russians had lost 1,090 soldiers and eight tanks in the past 24 hours. It also cited enemy offensives particularly in Lyman, Avdiyivka, Marinka, and Shakhtarsk. The Ukrainian General Staff said in a regular briefing statement on March 12 that Russian "storming operations" continued in the city. The fight for Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, has been one of the most sustained battles of Russia's year-old invasion of Ukraine despite its questionable strategic - as opposed to symbolic - worth in the eyes of many Western military observers. Prigozhin a day earlier posted a video of himself in battle gear around a kilometer from Bakhmut's city administration building in the gutted downtown of a city with a prewar population of around 70,000. But we are moving forward and will continue to move forward and we will not cover the glory of Russian arms with shame," he added. ![]() “Ukrainians keep on supplying endless reserves. “And the closer we are approaching the city center, the fiercer fighting is growing, the more artillery and tanks being used against us. "The situation in Bakhmut is difficult, very difficult, with the enemy fighting for each meter,” he was quoted as saying. Yevgheny Prigozhin, whose Wagner mercenary troops are active in Bakhmut, was quoted by the Russian state-run TASS news agency on March 12 as saying his forces are facing a “fierce” fight and that the Ukrainian military is sending “endless reserves” to the city. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war in Ukraine, click here. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensives, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. “Ukrainian and Russian sources continue to report heavy fighting in the city, but Wagner Group fighters are likely becoming increasingly pinned in urban areas…and are therefore finding it difficult to make significant advances,” the ISW said. Earlier reports said a river that runs through the middle of the city has now become the front line in the battle. Meanwhile, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in its latest update said there were no confirmed advances by Russian forces in Bakhmut over the past day. The Ukrainian military asserted on March 12 that the Russian side had lost more than 1,000 troops in the previous 24 hours in its offensive in eastern Ukraine and around Bakhmut, which has largely been destroyed in months of shelling and fighting as Kyiv has made a determined stand to defend the city. Russian fighters said they are continuing their assault on Bakhmut, but Ukrainian military commanders claim they are inflicting heavy losses on the invading forces and at least one influential think tank says advances by Kremlin-linked mercenaries appear to have stalled around the Donetsk region city.
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