Ukrainian officials say perhaps only 10% of the pre-war population remains in Bakhmut. On the western side of the city, some civilians try to carry on as best they can.
Soldiers shovel more dirt out of the trench, well inside the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The officer in charge, who gives his name only as Valentin, insists the trench is just a precautionary measure, and that the fighting in Soledar, just 15 kilometers to the north, remains back and forth. “If we have weapons and tanks and guns, they won’t come here,” he says. The situation in Soledar remains unclear.
Near the river that divides the town, and nearer the fighting, we saw a lone, one-legged figure on crutches making his way down the middle of a road littered with broken glass and twisted metal. We greeted the man, who introduced himself as Dmytro. “You have just two questions,” he said, taking a deep drag on a cigarette. One of his crutches had yellow tape on it, the other blue – the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
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