War breeds euphemism and metaphor. In the battle for the Donbas city of Bakhmut, threatened with a closing encirclement by Russian forces after seven months of bitter fighting, there are “White Angels” and “Dark Angels”, the “road of life” (the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, which is anything but) and the “Invincibility Centre”.
The White Angels, a police evacuation group, scour the lethal districts of the shell-ruined city to evacuate children and the elderly.
#Ukraine: A Russian Su-34/Su-30SM fighter jet was shot down over Russian-controlled Yenakiieve, #Donetsk Oblast. Two pilots ejected.
According to preliminary information, the jet was shot down in a friendly fire incident. pic.twitter.com/6Vw0peOAmi
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 3, 2023
