Back then, the battle map resembled the widely spread ... Ms Malyar said Ukraine had retaken just 24 sq km around Bakhmut since the counteroffensive began. The line may have straightened, but ...

Now similar scenes are playing out around a small Ukrainian city. History has a way of repeating itself. More than a hundred years later, smoke rises from the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine hasn't exactly been going ... and that Wagner units continue to fight Ukrainian forces in and around Bakhmut." Prigozhin may have ulterior motives for highlighting Russia's ...