Bakhmut, we are not passing. After Kherson, a time likened to the new Stalingrad, it’s Bakhmutin’s turn to be compared, this time to the Battle of Verdun. The city north of Donetsk, which had 70,000 residents before the February 2022 offensive, has been targeted by Wagner since May, with a major offensive launched on August 1. After the collapse of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson regions and, first of all, in Kharkiv, Bakhmut became the epicenter of the battles in Donbass. Since last winter, the Russian forces, led by Wagner, have been painstakingly recovering their positions. After eight months of minimal progress, the city still hasn’t fallen. Fighters clash in trench warfare whose violence evokes the horror of 1916.
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Source: Le Figaro
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