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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Bakhmut

This handout photograph released by Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak on September 17, 2023, shows Ukrainian servicemen posing for a photo with Ukrainian national flags in front of a destroyed building in the village of Klyshchiivka, Donetsk region.(Photo by Handout / Ukrainian Presidential Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak / AFP)
September 18, 2023, 5:40 am
Ukraine claims control of key town on eastern front
Kyiv says forces have retaken Klishchiivka, a tactically important town south of the key frontline city of Bakhmut
By AFP
This drone image shows destroyed houses during the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, September 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
September 15, 2023, 12:44 pm
Ukraine says village near Bakhmut ‘liberated’ as counteroffensive chugs on
Official announcement comes day after premature reports of Andriivka’s capture, which were blamed on a ‘communications breakdown’
By AFP
A Ukrainian soldier watches a Grad multiple launch rocket system firing near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, August 13, 2023. (Libkos/AP)
August 14, 2023, 2:33 pm
Ukraine says it ousted Russian forces from front line territory near Bakhmut
Amid slow progress in counteroffensive, deputy defense minister acknowledges forces have been diverted due to Russian pressure in Kharkiv region
By Stanislav DOSHCHITSYN
In this photo taken from video released on June 26, 2023, by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is on board a military helicopter on his way to inspect a command post of Russian troops in Ukraine (Screen grab/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)
June 26, 2023, 12:25 pm
Russian defense minister makes 1st video appearance since Wagner Group rebellion
Sergei Shoigu seen in clip posted by ministry, although unclear when it was filmed; mercenary leader Prigozhin had blasted Shoigu and army chief Gerasimov for months
By AP
FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 15, 2023 (AP Photo/Libkos, File)
May 24, 2023, 7:16 pm
At least 20,000 Wagner fighters killed in Bakhmut, head of Russian militia says
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads private convict army, says Kyiv could push Russians out of Crimea, rejects Moscow’s claim that Putin’s forces did not kill civilians in Ukraine
By susie blann
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures during a meeting with President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
May 21, 2023, 11:58 am
Zelensky says Bakhmut is ‘not occupied,’ denying Russia’s claim to control key city
Earlier comments by Ukrainian president had been widely interpreted to mean he thought eastern locale had fallen, hours after a similar claim by Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin
By Zeke Miller, Elise Morton and susie blann
Head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims the complete capture of east Ukraine's Bakhmut, in a video published to Telegram on May 20, 2023. (Screenshot)
May 20, 2023, 5:17 pm
Head of Russian mercenary group claims total capture of Ukraine’s Bakhmut
City has been scene of longest, bloodiest battle since Russia invaded; Wagner thought to have sustained heavy losses; Ukraine says it still maintains some control
By AFP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference with President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen in Kyiv on May 9, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
May 11, 2023, 2:40 pm
Zelensky: Ukraine needs more time before launching counteroffensive
While renewed push against Russian invasion has been expected for weeks, Ukrainian president says starting operation now would cost too many lives
By susie blann
A volunteer gesticulates on top of a partially destroyed residenial building after a shelling in Sloviansk, Donetsk region on April 14, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP)
April 16, 2023, 12:58 am
Russian strike kills 11 civilians in east Ukraine; Moscow claims gains near Bakhmut
Zelensky slams Russia for ‘killing people in broad daylight’ after shelling in Sloviansk; Brazil’s Lula says US should stop ‘encouraging war’
By Jonathan Brown
A Ukrainian soldier of the 28th brigade fires a grenade launcher on the frontline during a battle with Russian troops near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)
March 25, 2023, 9:41 pm
UK says Russia ‘largely stalled’ in Bakhmut, shifting focus
British military intelligence assesses ‘extreme attrition’ of Russian forces in city responsible for Moscow’s shift to defensive posture
By AP
Ukrainian servicemen light a fire with gun powder to get warm near the city of Bakhmut in the region of Donbas on March 5, 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Aris Messinis / AFP)
March 6, 2023, 8:03 pm
Ukraine moves to fortify embattled Bakhmut frontline as Russia closes in
Kyiv’s forces fighting to retain control of the salt-mining town say its capture by Russia is inevitable and that some units have already begun to pull back
By Thibault MARCHAND and Emmanuel PEUCHOT
Ukrainian servicemen fire a 105mm Howitzer toward Russian positions, near the city of Bakhmut, on March 4, 2023. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
March 5, 2023, 2:59 pm
Ukrainians try to hold on in devastated Bakhmut as Russians surround city
Kyiv seen as likely to retreat rather than allow soldiers to become surrounded in longest and bloodiest battle of war; Moscow defense chief makes rare visit near front line
By AFP
A Ukrainian police officer helps an elderly woman as she evacuates to safe areas in Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut, Ukraine, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
March 4, 2023, 5:07 pm
Civilians flee embattled Bakhmut as Ukrainian pullout looms amid Russian offensive
Residents forced to escape on foot after it becomes too dangerous for them to leave eastern city by car; ‘I pray to God that all who remain here will survive,’ says one woman
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
Smoke rises after shelling in the besieged city of Bakhmut amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 27, 2023. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP)
February 28, 2023, 2:04 pm
Ukraine says Bakhmut situation ‘extremely tense’ as army battles elite Russian units
Ukrainian military reports Moscow sending ‘best trained’ Wagner Group troops to conquer eastern industrial city, but invaders’ advance remains slow in war’s longest-running battle
By AFP
In this photo released by State Emergency Service of Ukraine on January 16, 2022, Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters carry a wounded woman out of the rubble from a building after a Russian rocket attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, January 15, 2023. (Pavel Petrov, SESU via AP)
January 16, 2023, 12:04 pm
Death toll in Russian missile strike on Ukrainian apartment building rises to 35
Authorities say another 35 still missing at site in Dnipro where weekend attack also left 75 injured; battle rages over control of small, strategic town of Soledar in east
By AP
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