INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian forces and Wagner mercenaries since the start of the invasion last year, according to a list of evacuees obtained by The Moscow
if it ever comes at all.If they were to return today, they would be met by a war-scarred wasteland
either followed migration corridors to the west of the country and Europe or went eastward to Russia, where they resettled across the
country.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the G7 meeting in Japan, told reporters in late May that the images from Bakhmut
near Kyiv, wrote to The Moscow Times
troops.Over time, staying in Bakhmut became increasingly treacherous, with both Ukrainian and Russian forces attempting to evacuate people
explaining why some people evacuated to Ukraine and others to Russia.Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose forces were at the
Bakhmut was not as unimpeachable as stated, and fighting was reported around the city into early July
On Saturday, the British Defense Ministry said that Bakhmut has again become the site of some of the most intense fighting along the front,
used to work in a brewery and now lives in Sochi in southern Russia
He stayed in Bakhmut until after most others had left in order to take care of his mother and grandmother.When asked if he agreed with
Mariupol, the besieged city on the Sea of Azov that Russia has occupied since May of last year
The city saw one of the bloodiest battles of the war that destroyed 90% of residential buildings, forced 350,000 people to evacuate the
city, and left potentially thousands dead, according to the United Nations.The comparison reflects a conscious strategy from the Kremlin
Ukraine, a region with steep political divides.Even the name of Bakhmut is a political matter
In interviews with The Moscow Times, those who fled to western Ukraine and Europe tended to call the city Bakhmut, while those who went to
revolutionary Comrade Artyom.Artyom, the former technician, said that he was proud to live in a city that shares his name.The Verkhovna
embodies a question facing many Ukrainian cities, though perhaps none as drastically: When the fighting is over, will people return?The
World Bank in March estimated the cost of rebuilding Ukraine at $411 billion
have fled to Europe while millions more are internally displaced, according to the United Nations
Getting people back to cities in the east will not just be a question of available housing and jobs
to wait as long as needed
His house used to overlook a city street lined with blooming flowers called Alleya Roz (Rose Alley), one of the places he now reminisces
