NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian artillery forces fighting near the Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut say Russian troops are constantly making offensive assaults as fighting intensifies and Kyiv waits for more military aid from the West. Ukrainian forces have taken up a more defensive stance in many areas of the snow-bound front after a counteroffensive last year was unable to break through heavily-defended Russian lines in the occupied south and east. “Now because of the weather, we switched to defensive actions. The enemy constantly tries to conduct offensive actions,” said Mykhail…