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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) - Russian forces are still edging forward in the bombed-out eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a Moscow-installed official said on Tuesday, but British intelligence said a Russian tank division had taken heavy losses in the nearby town of Avdiivka. The battle for Bakhmut, a mining city in the Donetsk region, has been the focus of Moscow s war in Ukraine for months, with both sides describing the fighting there as a meat grinder . Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed leader of the part of Donetsk region under Moscow s control, said most Ukrainian forces had pulled back from the AZOM metals factory on the western side of the Bakhmutka river in the city. The important thing here was to clear out the industrial zone at the plant itself. You can practically say that has now been done, with the guys just finishing off (Ukrainian) fighters there who are only left in solitary groups, Pushilin told Russian state TV. His claims ran counter to Ukrainian and Wester

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