INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
But in recent weeks, the battle in and around the city has become one of the fiercest of the nine-month war in Ukraine.Bakhmut, which sits
ammunition inside of a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer at a position along the front line in the vicinity of Bakhmut, Donetsk
employs mercenaries, including thousands recruited from Russian prisons, and has seen its profile rise greatly since the invasion of Ukraine
involved heavy artillery use, there has also been street-to-street fighting
And recent images of devastated forests and mud-filled trenches around Bakhmut prompted comparisons with the Western Front in World War
conventional Russian forces to the north and south, the attacking troops made a significant breakthrough late last month around the village
