The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group acknowledged on Wednesday that fighting for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut had inflicted severe damage on his own forces as well as the Ukrainian side.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared the damage in Bakhmut to the destruction wrought on Hiroshima after it was hit by an atomic bomb, as he denied Russia had captured the frontline city.

An aerial view of Bakhmut shows the extent of the damage in the eastern Ukrainian city caused by more than seven months of fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Damage was reported to houses ... Multiple residential buildings, a church, and a pharmacy were damaged across Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, and Bakhmut districts. InSumy Oblast, Russian attacks injured three ...

The Institute for the Study of War think tank reported that Russia's Wagner Group had lost between 14,000 and 24,000 fighters during a campaign to capture Bakhmut.

Leaving his life in Bakhmut had seemed impossible. Now he’s lost a friend, ... She came under artillery fire and suffered a shrapnel wound to her abdomen with damage to several organs.

Damage in Bakhmut, Ukraine, with an inset of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Austin on Monday said that a Ukrainian withdrawal from the embattled city would not be a major strategic setback ...

Some of the clearest satellite imagery in weeks of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut shows widespread damage to apartment buildings, bridges and industrial plants after weeks of heavy ...

But in Bakhmut, Wagner mercenaries have inched forward despite heavy losses. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. ... and detonate the unexploded mines and then damage nearby civilian homes.

Ukraine's ground forces commander said on Monday his troops were continuing to repel heavy Russian attacks on the eastern city of Bakhmut and that defending it was a "military necessity".

At least two civilians were killed and 13 were injured in Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine over the past day, ...

Leaving his life in Bakhmut had seemed impossible. Now he’s lost a friend, ... She came under artillery fire and suffered a shrapnel wound to her abdomen with damage to several organs.