
People have been fleeing the town of Bakhmut
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By Jeremy Bowen
BBC News, Dnipro
If President Putin's forces can encircle Severodonetsk, their next targets would most likely be the key cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in the Donetsk Oblast, the other side of Donbas.
Then he might declare victory in the battle for Donbas.
I saw lines of freshly dug trenches near the two cities, as the Ukrainians prepared fall back positions. If they fell, and it is no certainty as they are both heavily defended, President Putin would be able to declare his first significant victory of the war.
Russia would control a belt of territory stretching along its border south from Donbas and along most of Ukraine's coastline.
President Zelensky says that only diplomacy can end the war, but he has said that Russia must return to the positions it held before the invasion.
His allies, led by the US and UK, want to weaken Putin's Russia permanently. They have said Russia must not win.
Their critics say they'll fight to the last Ukrainian.

Ukrainian soldiers have slowed the Russian offensive in Donbas
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By Jeremy Bowen
BBC News, Dnipro
They have slowed the Russians down but have not stopped the offensive grinding forward. The Russians are inflicting heavy casualties.
A military source in the 57th Brigade told me that one of their units went into the line with 240 men and came out with about 140 - the rest of them killed, wounded and captured.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the Russians could be killing up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers a day in Donbas.
Not far from Severodonetsk, Bakhmut is a town getting slowly eaten by the war. This week it is about three miles from the Russians, well within range. Next week it might be much closer.
Civilians with somewhere to go have left. In the ruins in Donbas, the victory in Kyiv in March - the euphoria, glory and sacrifice - feel distant.
Bakhmut has been heavily shelled. Standing in front of his damaged house, a man in his 40s called Mitri showed defiance, apprehension and frustration. He had no idea what to expect in his town.
"I'm not Nostradamus. Why did Putin attack? It's all political games."

The town of Bakhmut has been heavily shelled
AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
By Jeremy Bowen
BBC News, Dnipro
The Ukrainian army is under more pressure than at any time since the first desperate weeks after the Russian invasion.
It could be fighting a losing battle in Luhansk, the northern part of Donbas region.
The Ukrainian General Staff says the Russians appear to be concentrating their forces for another push.
In the last day the Russians have intensified their attacks across the Donbas front line - getting closer to completing the encirclement of Severodonetsk, a city of 80,000 before the invasion.
The Ukrainians, as usual, are fighting with stubborn determination. Reinforcements are being poured into the battle.
In just a few minutes I saw about 20 armoured personnel carriers, with soldiers riding on them, driving to the front line - along with tanks on transporters and multiple rocket launchers.

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I only realized it was there after we left town back in 2020 so my cousin Carly Taylor took this picture for me when she was there.

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Handler Ashley Bowen and K9 Liberty with Kaufman County Fire Marshal (TX)
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Spring Finally Arrives - 19 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter)
Spring Finally Arrives - 19 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

Spring Finally Arrives - 18 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter)
Spring Finally Arrives - 18 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

Spring Finally Arrives - 6 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter)
Spring Finally Arrives - 6 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

Spring Finally Arrives - 5 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter)
Spring Finally Arrives - 5 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

Spring Finally Arrives - 4 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter)
Spring Finally Arrives - 4 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

Spring Finally Arrives - 3 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter)
Spring Finally Arrives - 3 (of 20) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50 mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (Fotodiox M42 to M43 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.

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