Russia is making “small tactical advances” around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but “at great cost,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday.
Right now there is intense fighting in and around the eastern city, Milley said, but in other places on the front line, there have been "significant exchanges of artillery, but no significant maneuver gains by either side.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that a Russian capture of Bakhmut would give them an “open road” to capturing other key Ukrainian cities in the east.
More than a year after the invasion of Ukraine started, Milley said Russian soldiers have been thrown into the war without “any sort of synchronized coordination and direction.”
“Russia continues to pay severely in terms of lives and military equipment for its continued war of choice,” he said.