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Ukraine keeps up pressure following Russian declaration of victory in Bakhmut

Ukraine keeps up pressure following Russian declaration of victory in Bakhmut

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and JAMEY KEATEN, AP

OUTSIDE BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Watching imagery from a drone camera overhead, Ukrainian battalion commander Oleg Shiryaev warned his men in nearby trenches that Russian forces were advancing across a field toward a patch of trees outside the city of Bakhmut.

The leader of the 228th Battalion of the 127th Kharkiv Territorial Defense Brigade then ordered a mortar team to get ready. A target was locked. A mortar tube popped out a loud orange blast, and an explosion cut a new crater in an already pockmarked hillside.

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