With about 80,000 inhabitants, the city of Bakhmut was a prosperous industrial and mining center in the Donetsk region before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but after more than a year of war it has become a jumble of ruins because its destruction it is practically complete.
Proof of this are the images captured by drones, which show an apocalyptic scenario when they fly over the city, the epicenter of the fighting between the Russian and Ukrainian armies for months.
What's left of Bakhmut.
The hellscape of Russian liberation. pic.twitter.com/rXqXIy2lGe— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) July 24, 2023
Can you imagine what we 🇺🇦 feel? What was the logic to give tanks without #F16 and #Atacams? Do they want to see 🇺🇦 soldiers die from mines and 🇷🇺 airplanes bombing? Thank #NAFOfellas for your support of 🇺🇦 But we have to ask politics what are they doing?#Bakhmut #Yampil #NAFO pic.twitter.com/YbiqdD7ly1
— Alex_Volunteer (@alexb_volunteer) July 25, 2023
Last May, Russian troops with the help of mercenaries from the Wagner group took control of most of the city, although the fighting has never stopped in the surroundings and the Ukrainian army is currently pressing to retake the city. .