Pavel Kuzin was killed in Bakhmut amid brutal fighting around the ... Shells were landing a few metres from their trenches. Two soldiers were wounded and Pavel told them to go into a dugout.

In August 2022, Russian forces launched an offensive that turned the Battle of Bakhmut into one of the bloodiest and most ...

Six months later, Moscow was on the defensive, engaged in World War I–style trench warfare ... The battle for Bakhmut, the longest and bloodiest of the war, ended a year after it began, long ...

Troops on the ground sheltered in trenches while ... aircraft gun in Bakhmut on 10 January, 2023. Russia's failure to establish air supremacy in the early days of the war - and since - has been ...

Everyone wants the war to end, but not everyone will see it, say Ukrainian soldiers. Many of them would welcome a ceasefire ...

The eastern front is often defended by trenches ... Bakhmut on the edge of the pocket has been shelled Fighting in this way was sorely lacking from Russian forces in the early stage of the war ...