Front line in Bakhmut now runs along river in city centre – British intelligence

This was reported by the British Ministry of Defenсe on Twitter.  

British intelligence reports that over the past four days, Wagner PMC forces have taken control of almost the entire eastern part of Bakhmut. In the city centre, the Bakhmutka River now marks the front line.

Ukrainian forces are holding the western part of the city and have destroyed key bridges across the river, which runs north-south through a 200-800 meter wide strip of open ground between the city's buildings. With Ukrainian forces able to fire from fortified buildings to the west, this area has become a killing zone, likely complicating Wagner's attempts to continue a frontal assault to the west.

"However, the Ukrainian force and their supply lines to the west remain vulnerable to the continued Russian attempts to outflank the defenders from the north and south," the British intelligence concluded.

The illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is continuing.

The map below is the latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 11 March 2023.

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• On March 10, Serhiy Cherevatyi, the spokesman for the eastern grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said that nearly 200 Russian soldiers had been killed near Bakhmut over the past 24 hours.