Ukrainian assault battalion ’storms Russian positions near Bakhmut’

UKRAINIAN assault troops stormed Russian positions near Bakhmut in footage released on Tuesday (June 6) by the 3rd assault brigade. Reuters was not able to independently verify the location of the videos or when the videos were filmed. The body camera footage showed a mechanised assault operation involving armoured vehicles. The 3rd assault brigade wrote on Telegram, a social media and messaging app where it published the footage, that it undertook “coordinated work of M113 storm troops, 60 mm mortars, tanks and aerial reconnaissance. The result: they pushed back the Russians for a kilometre.“ Ukraine advanced from 200 to 1,100 meters on parts of the front around the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut in the last 24 hours, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Wednesday (June 7) “Our troops have switched from being on the defensive to being on the offensive in the direction of Bakhmut,“ she said on the Telegram messenger. Reuters w