Russia has recently made marginal gains around Bakhmut, which it has been trying to capture for months without success.
Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of defense, told CNBC Wednesday that the city, Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, was"undoubtedly one of the key hotspots at the moment" in the ongoing war., seems to undercut recent claims from a Russian-installed leader in Donetsk that Bakhmut could soon be within Russia's grasp.
"Russian troops, in their current degraded state, are likely unable to be able to accomplish this task quickly," the ISW said in a report released Monday.
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