An curved arrow pointing right. Ukraine says it has advanced by 1.2 miles in Bakhmut, after months of defending against a Russian onslaught. But Moscow has denied these claims and says it has the ...

Commanders on both sides have called the battle a "meat grinder ... city of Bakhmut following months of some of the bloodiest fighting since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February ...

Shortly after the Kharkiv rout, Gen Syrsky was put in charge of his third major campaign of the war – the defence of Bakhmut. It is here in the salt mining town in Eastern Ukraine where the ...

More than a hundred years later, smoke rises from the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. Sitting on the ... waves and waves of troops into the "meat grinder". The city burns under relentless ...

Despite this, military analysts believe Bakhmut has little strategic value, with the city's importance now symbolic. The high number of Russian casualties may be the main reason Ukraine has not ...

"Russia likely views seizing Bakhmut as a preliminary to advancing on the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk urban area, which is the most significant population center of Donetsk Oblast held by Ukraine ...

Wagner paramilitary forces have led the Russian attack on Bakhmut - which analysts say is of little strategic value to Moscow - and has seen thousands of troops killed. Ukraine, for its part ...

Russia has claimed control of Bakhmut after months of fighting over the eastern Ukrainian city. WSJ explains how the city turned into the bloodiest and one of the longest battles of the Ukraine war.

Russia and Ukraine have long been fighting over the city of Bakhmut, a conflict that is unlikely to be stemmed in 2025 barring an unforeseen end to the Russo-Ukrainian war. Ukrainian forces have ...

Russian soldier Ruslan Anitin was one of the last fighters alive in his unit on the front lines of Bakhmut after Ukrainian ... Photo: Code 9.2 Unit of Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade ...