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Inside Bakhmut: The strange and senseless death trap draining Ukraine’s tired army

The town has seen hundreds killed or wounded each day in bloody frontal attacks, yet holds little military significance

Peering through a telescope looking for enemy movement in no-man’s land, the Ukrainian soldier points out a warehouse held by Russian forces.

The adversaries are only 300 or 400 yards from their fighting position, uphill across a shattered landscape of blown out buildings and barren fields.

“They throw their meat at us,” says another soldier beside him, grimly referring to the human wave of assaults carried out by Russian mercenaries and poorly-equipped reservists.

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