Ukraine Latest: Zelenskiy Says Extra Troops Will Defend Bakhmut
A street in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on Jan. 6.
Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine is sending reinforcements to defend two front-line towns in the Donetsk region that he called among the bloodiest in the fight against Russia’s invasion. Earlier Sunday, Kyiv rejected as “nonsense” a Russian government claim that Kremlin troops killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers in an overnight strike.