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But delivery of those weapons is months away, leaving Kyiv to fight on through the winter in what both sides have described as a meat grinder of relentless attritional warfare.
“However, the war is now moving to a new stage: what we in the military call ‘positional’ warfare of static and attritional fighting.
"It's a really attritional, hard, league with good players and organised teams, so I think they understand that they have to work really hard to try and make an impact on the team."
Russia is trying to beef up its armed forces as the Ukraine war grows ever more attritional while incorporating fighters from the Wagner mercenary force.
The months-long struggle for Bakhmut has resulted in some of the bloodiest attritional fighting of Russia’s year-old invasion of Ukraine.
Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2023/02/26/eu-sanctions-russia-ukraine/
The months-long struggle for Bakhmut, where only about 5,000 of 70,000 residents remain, has seen some of the bloodiest attritional fighting of Russia’s year-old invasion.
This is fundamentally the inverse of the Russia-Ukraine war—a classic industrial-era attritional war with pockets of 21st-century innovation, such as the creative use of drones.
"We are in Bakhmut and the enemy does not control it," Zelenskiy said, refuting claims by Russian forces that they had captured the city, in ruins after months of attritional warfare and bombardment.