7km south-west of Bakhmut". Analysts say the city is of little strategic value to Moscow, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for Russia after the longest battle of the war in Ukraine so far.

Russia has claimed control of Bakhmut after months of fighting over the eastern ... and one of the longest battles of the Ukraine war. Credit: Concord Group Press Office/Zuma Press ...

Nearly every single resident has now left, and those the BBC has been able to contact describe Bakhmut before the war as extremely well looked-after, cosy and leafy. They also speak fondly of the ...

Anna Holubtsova was getting ready to sing at the concert organised in Kyiv by the Bakhmut administration, exiled since ...

Newly released drone footage shows the almost complete ruin of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut following months of some of the bloodiest fighting since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in ...

Russia has warned it “rules out nothing” regarding nuclear testing in response to Donald Trump’s “radical” position on the ...

The battle for Bakhmut, the longest and bloodiest of the war, ended a year after it began, long after the city had become more symbolically important than strategically significant. When Russian ...

In the hell of Bakhmut, some things have not changed a century on. "Russia has seduced itself into believing that quantity can prevail and is still really fighting a 20th Century war," military ...

Located in Ukraine's northeast Donetsk region, Bakhmut has been one of the epicenters of fighting ever since the Russo-Ukrainian war first began, and became occupied by Russian forces after a ...

Anna Holubtsova was getting ready to sing at the concert organised in Kyiv by the Bakhmut administration, exiled since ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the frontlines near Bakhmut on Wednesday. The visit came shortly after Russia launched a new wave of missiles and drones into Ukraine, killing seven ...