March 6, 2023

Kyiv, Ukraine – “Burnt ruins.”

That is what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in December during his brief visit to Bakhmut, a largely-destroyed and depopulated southeastern city that has become the epicentre of the Russia-Ukraine war.

The battle for Bakhmut is one of the bloodiest and longest in the conflict that has entered its second year.

Read more:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/6/what-happens-when-ukraine-leaves-bakhmut