A few leaned against their rifles or slid to the ground with their backs against the wall. None said how many friends they had just lost on the killing fields of Ukraine’s brutal battle in Bakhmut.

Russia and Ukraine have long been fighting over the city of Bakhmut, a conflict that is unlikely to be stemmed in 2025 barring an unforeseen end to the Russo-Ukrainian war. Ukrainian forces have ...

Russian soldier Ruslan Anitin was one of the last fighters alive in his unit on the front lines of Bakhmut after Ukrainian drones dropped explosives on his comrades. Battlefield footage shows how ...

The eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been devastated after months of fighting The battle for Bakhmut, the Ukrainian city which Russia has spent months trying to capture, is "stabilising ...

"It barely exists anymore," said the mayor of Vovchansk, an industrial town razed by a Russian onslaught shocking even for ...