0-北大西洋条約機構 同盟（する）s 重さを計る more 武器 for ウクライナ共和国 as ロシアの 大砲 乱打するs Bakhmut
Russia 続けざまに猛撃するs 前線 lines in ウクライナ共和国's south, east
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Eastern city Bakhmut 準備するs for ロシアの 強襲，強姦
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ウクライナ共和国 seen 開始する，打ち上げるing own 不快な／攻撃 in spring -Austin
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北大西洋条約機構 working to give Kyiv means to make it work, he says
By Pavel Polityuk and Yiming 支持を得ようと努める
KYIV/MARINKA, ウクライナ共和国, Feb 14 (Reuters) - ロシアの 軍隊s 砲撃するd 前線-line Ukrainian 軍隊／機動隊s and towns in the eastern Donetsk 地域 on Tuesday in what appeared to be 早期に 一斉射撃s of a new 不快な／攻撃, as Western 同盟（する）s met to 重さを計る sending more 武器 to Kyiv for an 推定する／予想するd 反対する-attack.
Much of Russia's 大砲 解雇する／砲火／射撃 was 焦点（を合わせる）d on Bakhmut, a 爆弾d-out city in Donetsk 州 and a 主要な／長／主犯 的 for 大統領 Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian 軍隊／機動隊s there have 防備を堅める／強化するd positions in 予期 of street fighting.
"There is not a 選び出す／独身 square metre in Bakhmut that is 安全な or that is not in 範囲 of enemy 解雇する／砲火／射撃 or drones," 地域の 知事 Pavlo Kyrylenko told ウクライナ共和国's 国家の 放送者.
He said ロシアの guns were 続けざまに猛撃するing 的s all along the 前線 lines in Donetsk, which along with Luhansk 州 makes up the Donbas, ウクライナ共和国's 産業の 中心地域 and a major ロシアの 客観的な.
Bakhmut's 逮捕（する） would 供給する a stepping 石／投石する for Russia to 前進する on two bigger Donetsk cities, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, and give Moscow new 勢い after months of 戦場 後退s に引き続いて its 侵略 last February.
White House spokesperson John Kirby said in Washington that ロシアの 軍隊s had made incremental 進歩 in their 強襲，強姦 on Bahkmut but it remained 不明瞭な whether the city would 落ちる.
With the first 周年記念日 of Russia's 侵略 近づくing, the Kremlin has 強めるd 操作／手術s across a 幅の広い 列 of southern and eastern ウクライナ共和国, and a major new 不快な／攻撃 has been 広範囲にわたって 心配するd.
U.S. 弁護 長官 Lloyd Austin said he 推定する／予想するd ウクライナ共和国 to 開始する，打ち上げる its own 不快な／攻撃 against Russia in the spring and Kyiv's 同盟（する）s were working to 確実にする they had the armour, firepower and 兵たん業務 to make it 効果的な.
"ウクライナ共和国 has 緊急の 必要物／必要条件s to help it 会合，会う this 決定的な moment in the course of the war. We believe there'll be a window of 適切な時期 for them to 演習 率先," Austin told a 会合 of defence 大臣s of 北大西洋条約機構 and other 同盟（する）s of ウクライナ共和国 to discuss 選択s for more 軍の 援助（する）.
"The Kremlin is still betting it can wait us out, but one year on we are as 部隊d as ever. That 株d 解決する will help 支える ウクライナ共和国's 勢い in the 決定的な weeks ahead."
ウクライナ共和国 is 現在／一般に using 爆撃するs faster than the West can make them.
MORE MILITARY AID?
約束d 戦う／戦い 戦車／タンクs last month, ウクライナ共和国 is also desperate for 闘士，戦闘機 jets and longer-範囲 ミサイルs soon to 阻止する any 重要な new ロシアの 不快な／攻撃 in the bud and help turn the tide against Moscow's far superior firepower.
Before the 集会, 北大西洋条約機構 長官-General Jens Stoltenberg said there were no 調印するs Putin was 準備するing for peace. "What we see is the opposite, he is 準備するing for more war, for new 不快な／攻撃s and new attacks," he told reporters.
The Kremlin, which calls the 侵略 a "special 軍の 操作／手術" to 除去する 安全 脅しs, said 北大西洋条約機構 was 論証するing its 敵意 に向かって Russia every day and was becoming more and more 伴う／関わるd in the 衝突.
Kyiv and its 同盟（する）s call Russia's 活動／戦闘s an unprovoked land 得る，とらえる.
ウクライナ共和国's 軍の said on Tuesday its 軍隊s had repelled attacks in five 解決／入植地s in Luhansk and six in Donetsk, 含むing around Bakhmut, over the past 24 hours. They had also beaten 支援する an attack on a town in the Kharkiv 地域, which 国境s Russia in northeast ウクライナ共和国, it said.
Britain said on Tuesday mercenaries from the Wagner group, who have spearheaded the ロシアの 強襲，強姦 on Bakhmut, had made small 伸び（る）s in its northern 郊外s in the past three days.
A 地域の road and rail 輸送（する） and 兵たん業務 中心, Bakhmut has 耐えるd months of 爆撃する and many 地区s are in 廃虚s. Only about 5,000 非軍事のs are left there out of a pre-war 全住民 of about 70,000, 知事 Kyrylenko said.
The 事実上の／代理 長，率いる of the ロシアの-任命する／導入するd 行政 in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said Ukrainian 軍隊／機動隊s were 堅固に守るd in Bakhmut but ロシアの 軍隊s were making 前進.
Wagner 長，率いる Yevgeniy Prigozhin said ロシアの 軍隊s would not be able to 逮捕（する） the town anytime soon. In a 地位，任命する on the 電報電信 channel, Prigozhin said ウクライナ共和国 was 増強するing with up to 500 new 闘士，戦闘機s a day.
""The heaviest 戦う／戦いs are taking place to the north (of Bakhmut). There are no grounds for encircling the enemy in the northern areas," he said.
WAITING FOR BIG PUSH
Ukrainian 公式の／役人s also said the ロシアのs had 苦しむd big losses around Vuhledar, a town 150 km (90 miles) 南西 of Bakhmut, 含むing 戦車／タンクs, armoured 乗り物s and 職員／兵員.
Reuters was not able to 独立して 立証する 戦場 報告（する）／憶測s.
On the 雪に閉じ込められた Ukrainian 前線 line between Vuhledar and Marinka 30 km to the northeast, and 400 metres (1, 300 feet) from ロシアの positions, two officers said Kyiv's 軍隊s were 持つ／拘留するing 会社／堅い against 強めるing ロシアの 大砲 and 迫撃砲 解雇する／砲火／射撃.
"以前 there were a couple of 大砲 and 迫撃砲 attacks a day, now there are more than 10 a day. 大砲 is working harder than the enemy's infantry," one officer who identified himself just as "副" told a Reuters news team.
Russia now 持つ／拘留するs 列s of the southern 地域s of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, 含むing its 核の 工場／植物, nearly all of Luhansk and over half of Donetsk, 含むing the 地域の 資本／首都. にもかかわらず not fully controlling any of the four 地域s, Moscow （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to have 別館d them all.
Kyiv-based 軍の 分析家 Oleksandr Musienko told Reuters the ロシアの 押し進める around Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Adviivka could signal the beginning of the big 不快な／攻撃. Fighting had also 強めるd in Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, he said.
"Russia wants to do this ーするために stretch our 軍隊s, but that means that Russia does not learn from its mistakes because experience has shown that stretching of 軍隊s like that in 2022 did not bring them any 重要な victories," he said.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Caleb Davis, Sabine Siebold, Pavel Polityuk, Ron Popeski, Lydia Kelly, Aleksandar Vasovic, Tassilo Hummel, Steve Holland and Doina Chiacu; 令状ing by Angus MacSwan and 示す Heinrich; editing by Robert Birsel, Andrew Cawthorne and John Stonestreet)
