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title: "Bakhmut- To Late for Zelensky’s Troop Withdrawal?"
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**I’m afraid it is. Yesterday’s news via Globe and Mail[ (archive.ph)](https://archive.ph/l8RWK)**

![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/image-23.png?resize=580%2C464&ssl=1)**The image above was taken 3 days ago. How could troops withdraw to safety in those conditions?**

> **Russian forces were trying to close their circle around the small mining city of Bakhmut on Monday,** while rain and an early spring thaw turned east Ukraine’s battlefields to mud which could hamper both sides as they try to take the initiative.
> 
> **Reuters saw several military vehicles stuck in mud.** In a trench, cut deeply out of the ground in a zigzag pattern, Volodymyr, a 25-year-old platoon commander, said his men were prepared to operate in any weather.
> 
> ***“When we’re given a target that means we have to destroy it”***

[Wall Street Journal via archive.ph](https://archive.ph/21UOd#selection-36.1-38.1)

**Ukraine’s Forces Endure Increasingly Dire Conditions in Bakhmut, Officials Say**

> “The enemy is constantly ***destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions,”*** Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Monday.
> 
> Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, visited troops in **Bakhmut over the weekend. On Tuesday, he called the situation in the city “extremely tense**,”
> 
> Ukraine has also taken heavy losses in the monthslong fight for Bakhmut
> 
> Mr. Zelensky renewed calls for allies to send modern jet fighters to fully protect civilian areas from missile and drone attacks