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.

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 ...

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 ...

In the initial days of the war, everyone thought that Ukraine would be crushed by Russia in a week. But the territorial and ...

Russia has found that expendable convict soldiers can clear the way for regular troops, but these tactics come at a massive ...

Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.

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 ...

Newly released drone footage shows the almost complete ruin of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut following months ... Justin Trudeau announces resignation after 9 years as Canada's prime minister ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Russia claims to have captured Bakhmut after 10 months of battle, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed back on the victory claim at the G7 summit.

The Institute for the Study of War recently said "Ukrainian forces are likely conducting a limited ... Near the town of Chasiv Yar, 10 kilometers (six miles) west of Bakhmut, one soldier said he came ...

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 ...