Ukraine's Bakhmut counter-attack as Putin's army 'loses momentum'

UKRAINIAN forces have launched a counter-attack to the west of Bakhmut where Vladimir Putin’s army may be losing its momentum to capture the town after months of fierce fighting, British defence chiefs said today.

- Nicholas Cecil

However, they said that the fate of the town in eastern Ukraine was still in the balance and Putin’s regular military and his “private army”, the Wagner Group, could still encircle and seize it.

In its latest intelligence update, the Ministry of Defence in London said: “Over recent days Ukrainian forces initiated a local counter-attack to the west of the Donetsk Oblast (province) town of Bakhmut.