Fall of Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would not mean a strategic win for Russia: Pentagon
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the fall of Bakhmut to Russian forces would not mean Moscow had gained a strategic advantage in Ukraine.
Austin said he would not predict whether Moscow would be able to successfully take Bakhmut, which both Ukrainian and Russian forces have said has been a brutal fight. Caitlin McFall is a Reporter at Fox News Digital covering Politics, U.S. and World news.
"What I do see on a daily basis is the Russians continuing to pour in a lot of ill-trained and ill-equipped troops, and those troops are very quickly meeting their demise," Austin said, referring to both Russian military recruits and Wagner forces pulled from the Russian penal system last year.
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