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Russia is using “scorched earth” tactics as it fights to take Bakhmut, a top Ukrainian military commander said Monday, as the city in Ukraine’s east is reduced to rubble after months of heavy combat for which Kyiv and Moscow have paid

a heavy price in lives and equipment.

“The fighting from both sides is tough,” said Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s commander of ground forces overseeing the Bakhmut campaign in a visit to troops, according to the military. Russia, he said, is “destroying buildings and military positions with airstrikes and artillery fire.”

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