Bakhmut
City in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
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Bakhmut is a city in eastern Ukraine. It is officially the administrative center of Bakhmut urban hromada and Bakhmut Raion in Donetsk Oblast. The city is located on the Bakhmutka River, about 90 kilometres north of Donetsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Bakhmut was designated a city of regional significance until 2020, when the designation was abolished. In January 2022, it had an estimated population of 71,094.
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Was a lack of Ukrainian ammunition to blame for Russia taking Avdiivka?The fall of Avdiivka has handed Russia its most important battlefield victory since it seized Bakhmut following nine months of gruelling attritional warfare.Sky News - Published | |
Russia 'diverting attention' by claiming Ukraine counteroffensive - Kyiv Russian reports that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun are being used to distract from Russian losses in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian deputy defence minister has said.Sky News - Published | |
Wagner boss says his mercenaries handing over control of Bakhmut to Russian troops The head of the Wagner Group says his forces have started pulling out of Bakhmut and are handing over control to the Russian military.Sky News - Published | |
Ukraine says its troops are still advancing on devastated city of Bakhmut Ukraine has said its troops are still advancing on the flanks of the devastated city of Bakhmut, but that the "intensity" of their movement has decreased. Sky News - Published | |
Russian control of 'kill box' Bakhmut comes at a high cost to Kremlin war machineEven as Ukrainian fighters remain in Bakhmut, for all intents and purposes the city is now effectively controlled by Russia.Sky News - Published | |
Russian private army head claims forces have won control of Ukraine's Bakhmut The head of Russian private army Wagner has claimed his fighters have completed the capture of eastern Ukrainian city Bakhmut, after the longest battle of the Ukraine war.Sky News - Published | |
'There is nothing' left in Bakhmut, Zelenskyy says after Russia claims controlVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said "there is nothing left" in Bakhmut, as Russia claimed control of the Ukrainian city after months of fierce fighting.Sky News - Published | |
Terror and desperation inside Bakhmut's blackened nightmare as Ukrainians refuse to yield It is a long, nervy and treacherous walk to the frontline trenches around Bakhmut.Sky News - Published | |
The battle for Bakhmut: Ukrainian city a smoking ruin as Russians forced back in disarray An armoured personnel carrier kicks up dust as it careers across the drying land.Sky News - Published | |
Bakhmut has limited strategic value - but the battle is about maximising enemy casualties Heroic Ukrainian resistance has withstood Russia's full-frontal attack on Bakhmut for nearly a year - however, at huge cost, both in human life and the devastation of a once-thriving city.Sky News - Published | |
'We need more of everything': Ukrainian soldiers demand extra Western weapons to defend Bakhmut There's an eerie sense of foreboding in the villages, towns, and cities of eastern Ukraine - especially those within firing distance of Russian artillery, and the fighting in the nearby city of..Sky News - Published | |
Top Ukrainian commanders vow to stand firm on Bakhmut in face of fierce Russian pressure Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his top military commanders have pledged to continue defending the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut in the face of intense Russian pressure.Sky News - Published | |
'They don't just shoot them... they took axes': Stories of brutality in Bakhmut Russian forces in Bakhmut have killed Ukrainian soldiers with axes before photographing their dismembered bodies and sharing the images, according to one military volunteer.Sky News - Published | The rumbling percussion of artillery echoes as a David and Goliath battle takes place in the city of Bakhmut The city of Bakhmut is almost under siege.Sky News - Published |
'This is such a stupid tank': Ukrainian commander's plea for Western upgrades A Soviet-era T-72 rumbles through woodland belching thick black smoke as it fishtails over the frozen mud near the battered Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.Sky News - Published | Missing Briton reveals how he dodged drones and bombs while helping evacuate people from Bakhmut One of the Britons missing in Ukraine revealed in his last interview before he vanished the kind of danger he and his fellow volunteers face on a daily basis.Sky News - Published |
'There's almost no life left': Russia steps up attacks as troops attempt to encircle major Donetsk city Russia has stepped up its offensive in Ukraine, with officials suggesting Vladimir Putin's troops have taken control of an area outside the major city of Bakhmut.Sky News - Published | Ukraine war: Why is Bakhmut so important to Russia and a 'thorn in the side of Putin'? The landscape around the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut has come to resemble a First World War battlefield, the ground carved up by artillery and cut with networks of trenches.Sky News - Published |
Chechens fighting for Ukraine say Russians are 'like cattle for slaughter, leaving the ground covered with corpses' In a bunker below the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut, a jihadi commander with a half a million-dollar Russian bounty on his head, joins his men in prayer.Sky News - Published | 'It's terrifying to live like this': Ukrainians under bombardment in one of the world's most dangerous places A middle-aged woman with a bright yellow hat stepped out of a white van close to the frontline Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, one of the most dangerous places on the planet.Sky News - Published |
Ghost cities and patriots: The lonely road to Ukraine's battered Bakhmut region Often driving alone, sometimes with a small group, Seva Koshel is no stranger to frontline supply drops into eastern Ukraine.Sky News - Published | Ukraine's ad-hoc aviators using consumer drones to spy on Russian frontline The city of Bakhmut has come under continuous attack over the past four weeks but the Ukrainians are finding new ways to defend it.Sky News - Published |
The victims of Ukraine war given the chance of escape in 'the capsule' but who choose to stay put The always sickening sound of incoming and outgoing artillery, mortars and rockets punctuates the otherwise silent streets of the frontline Ukrainian town of Bakhmut.Sky News - Published | |
