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The tongue of fire of the tank firing shots at Bakhmut: incessant swirl of bullets

The video released in the network by the army: a Kiev tank explodes chain shots on the snow three houses in the city where the fierce battle against the Russians takes place

21/02/2023

A video from the Ukrainian front circulated on social media in Kiev shows a tank firing in a street in Bakhmut, between houses.
An incessant whirlwind of bullets with shots exploded one after another.

In the southern city, a bloody battle has been taking place for weeks between Ukrainian and Russian troops.

According to Ukrainian sources, Putin is concentrating his main efforts "on conducting offensive actions in the directions of Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk". So in a recent post on Facebook the General Staff of the Ukrainian army.

Bakhmut, strategic city for war
The conquests of the towns of Soledar (conquests confirmed by Kiev) and Vulhedar and Bakhmut (Russian victories always denied by Ukraine), seem to have a very important significance in the conflict that began a year ago.
According to Yuriy Podolyaka, a well-known pro-Russian Ukrainian military analyst and blogger "Artyomovsk and Soledar are a Stalingrad in miniature", while on the other front, pro-Kiev war correspondent Yuriy Butusov argued that even more important would be the battle for Vulhedar, a communication hub "that the Russians want to conquer to prevent the Ukrainians from turning it into a springboard for the possible counteroffensive to the south, in the direction of Crimea".

If Odessa is the red line that Kiev must defend at all costs to maintain access to the Black Sea, so is Crimea for Moscow, protecting a Sea of Azov transformed into a Russian lake.
And the small towns seem to have a decisive role for both sides, in order to defend the positions on the entire southern front.