The Battle for Bakhmut: Ukraine vs Russia.

Bakhmut, a city in Ukraine's east, has become the site of the bloodiest combat in 14 months of war between Ukraine and Russia. The city, known for its winery, has become a churned-up moonscape of battered buildings, bombed-out vehicles, and corpses. Russia and Ukraine both insist that fighting in Bakhmut makes their adversary expend men and materiel that would otherwise be deployed elsewhere, and that it buys time for their respective forces to prepare for the more significant battles ahead.