Moscow has tried to seize this eastern Ukrainian city of Kiev for months, fighting an unending battle of attrition.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Russian forces have been afflicted with over 1,100 casualties over the last couple of days, and many more seriously injured.
Russia has claimed that it murdered more than 220 Ukrainian military personnel in the last 24 hours.
Analysts believe that Bakhmut has no strategic significance, but it is now a focal area for Russian commanders struggling to relay any positive news for the Kremlin.
The capture of the city could bring Russia a little closer to control of the entire Donetsk region, which is one of the four regions in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine which was annexed to Russia in September of last year after a referendum widely condemned in the outside world Russia as a fraud.
The city's capture would bring Russia one step closer to control of the entire Donetsk region, which is one of the four regions in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine which was annexed to Russia in September of last year after a referendum widely condemned in the outside world Russia as a fraud.
"In less than a week, starting from 6 March, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers in the Bakhmut sector alone, Russia's irreversible loss, right there, near Bakhmut," Zelensky declared in his video address to the nation at night.
He said 1500 Russian soldiers were severely wounded enough to bar them of any further actions.
The Russian defence ministry claimed that Russian forces have murdered "more than 220 Ukrainian servicemen".
The leader of Ukraine's forces on the ground, Major General Oleksandr Syrskyi said that his troops were being attacked by the Russian group of mercenaries known as the Wagner Group was attacking his troops from different directions to breach defenses and advance into district central to the towns.
The paramilitary group is at the center of the Russian offensive against Bakhmut. The leader of the group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has put his reputation, as well as the reputation of his private army on capturing Bakhmut.
Within the Donetsk direction ... more than 220 Ukrainian soldiers as well as the infantry combat vehicle three armored fighting vehicles seven vehicles along with the D-30 howitzer, were destroyed in the daytime," the ministry said.
Both sides have acknowledged suffering and suffering substantial losses in Bakhmut in the last few months, though the precise amount of casualties is hard to determine independently.
Ukraine has repeatedly declared that the Bakhmut defense will continue, with the top leaders saying that this weekend that fighting in Bakhmut allows the troops to gain the time they need to prepare for a bigger attack.
