'It's like Verdun': The grinding battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

“It's like Verdun”: in Ukraine, the Battle of Bakhmut at the tipping point

As in 1916 in eastern France, the Battle of Bakhmut was extremely violent and lethal. Its outcome has become a symbolic question as the first anniversary of the start of the war, on 24 February, approaches.

War in Ukraine: “it's like Verdun”, the Battle of Bakhmut at the tipping point

In Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces continues. The Russian advance seems to have been stopped but the pressure remains according to experts, while Volodymyr

‘It’s like Verdun’: the grinding battle for Ukraine’s Bakhmut

Men with limbs lost to mines and artillery wounds are pulled from battlefields carved with trenches and scarred by shells in a fight drawing comparisons to infamous battles of World War I.

'It's like Verdun': The grinding battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

'It's like Verdun': The grinding battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

BAKHMUT,Ukraine: An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

“It's like Verdun”: In Ukraine, the Battle of Bakhmut at the tipping point

A screaming siren, an ambulance rushes to a triage center for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut (East), the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle since the start of the Russian invasion.