Nearly every single resident has now left, and those the BBC has been able to contact describe Bakhmut before the war as extremely well looked-after, cosy and leafy. They also speak fondly of the ...

Newly released drone footage shows the almost complete ruin of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut following months of some of the bloodiest fighting since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in ...

By September 2023, Ukraine was "vowing to take back the shattered city of Bakhmut but [faced] a long, hard slog after encountering ... career covering local news before joining Newsweek as a ...

Maria Zaitseva, a 24-year-old Belarusian volunteer soldier fighting for Ukraine, was killed in action near the town of ...

Sniper commander Ghost says his team got the name "the Ghosts of Bakhmut" after they started their operations in the area ...

Bakhmut is located in the northeastern part of the Donetsk region. Before the full-scale war, it was a center of Ukraine's salt industry and a railway hub. Since May 2022, Bakhmut had been a ...

Near the town of Chasiv Yar, 10 kilometers (six miles) west of Bakhmut, one soldier said he came to repair his tank after a month of fighting ... It may well culminate again before taking the city, ...