the battle for bakhmut began last august, and ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our verify team has been looking at images from bakhmut that show the extent of the destruction in these months of fighting, with the bbc s olga malchevska. this is bakhmut before russia invaded ukraine. once famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes. this is bakhmut now reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated, the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy from site of the city. 70,000 people used to live here before russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. i was here in 2019 when the city was still full of life. this satellite image shows a street in bakhmut in may last year with civilian blocks of flats surrounding
not lost a single day to help ukraine repel the russian aggression. the battle for bakhmut began last august, and ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our verify team has been looking at images from bakhmut that show the extent of the destruction in these months of fighting, with the bbc s olga malchevska. this is bakhmut before russia invaded ukraine. once famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes. this is bakhmut now reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated, the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy from site of the city. 70,000 people used to live
once famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes, this is bakhmut now, reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated. the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy. pushing the enemy from side of the city. 70,000 people used to live here before russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. i was here in 2018 when the city was still full of life. this satellite image shows a street in bakhmut in may last year with civilian blocks of flats surrounding a school and two nurseries. and here they are now after months of shelling. the bbc has been tracking the extent of this destruction. this used to be a famous site in support, the rose garden.
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