Generate a catchy news headline for the following text. Ukrainian troops were able to semi-encircle the city of Bakhmut and fight Russian forces in the area, according to NAME_1, the Ukrainian deputy defense minister, on Sunday. \"The enemy failed to surround Bakhmut and they lost part of the dominant heights around the city. This means that the advance of our troops in the suburbs along the flanks, which is still ongoing, makes it very difficult for the enemy to stay in Bakhmut.Our troops took the city in a semi-encirclement, which gives us the opportunity to destroy the enemy. Therefore, the enemy [Russia] has to defend itself in the part of the city it controls,\" NAME_2 wrote on Telegram. The deputy defense minister added in her post that Ukrainian troops still have control over industrial and infrastructure facilities, and the private sector in the Litak area in Bakhmut. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his \"special military operation\" on NAME_3 last February, aiming for a quick victory over his Eastern European neighbor. However, after more than a year of fighting, combat remains concentrated in the easternmost regions of NAME_3 as several issues including a lack of motivated forces plague Moscow's ranks. Bakhmut, a city in Eastern NAME_3 within the country's Donetsk region, has been the site of a monthslong battle between Ukrainian and Russian troops, with both sides claiming victory in the city. NAME_2's remarks came a day after the NAME_4 Group, a private paramilitary unit, claimed \"victory\" in Bakhmut, with the group's founder NAME_5 saying that the city was \"fully taken\" by Russian forces. The Russian Defense Ministry also backed the claim, stating that the \"offensive actions\" of the NAME_4 forces and the Russian troops had \"completed\" the capture of the city. NAME_6 posted a video to his Telegram channel on Saturday of him holding a Russian flag in front of his troops and claiming that his forces had taken full control over the city, which NAME_3 has denied. \"At noon on the 20 May, 2023, Bakhmut was fully taken. We have completely taken the whole city, from house to house,\" the NAME_4 leader said, adding that his forces would hand Bakhmut over to the Russian military next week. However, NAME_6's remarks still contradicted what Ukrainian Ground Forces' Colonel General NAME_7 said about the Ukrainian military continuing its operations as it advances along the flanks in Bakhmut, according to Ukrainian news agency Pravda. \"Despite the fact that we  There should be exactly 5 paragraphs separated by the markdown divider: ***.
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