Russian forces carried out relentless attacks on Bakhmut on Wednesday (March 1), trying to encircle the eastern Ukrainian city. "The most difficult part, as before, is Bakhmut and the fighting that is essential for the city's defence," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address, adding that "the intensity of the fighting is only increasing".
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