Ukraine war: Russia has 'highly likely' reached Bakhmut centre, says UK

Ukrainian servicemen ride on a Dutch armoured personnel carrier near Bakhmut on April 6th, 2023. Photograph: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images Russia appears to have made important gains in Bakhmut, the British Ministry of Defence said. The ministry said in its daily update that Russian forces have "highly likely advanced into the [Bakhmut] town centre, and has seized the West Bank of the Bakhmutka River. Ukraine's key supply route to the west of the town is likely severely threatened." It adds there is the "realistic possibility that, locally, Wagner and Russian MoD commanders have paused their ongoing feud and improved…