Ukraine's Intense Battle for Bakhmut Against Russian Forces.
Ukrainian troops blew up their own building in Bakhmut to trap Russian soldiers who had forced their way inside, fighting with them room to room. The battle for Bakhmut, a city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, is a horrific affair that has lasted for months and cost thousands of lives. It is the longest and bloodiest contest of Russia's war and it regularly draws comparisons to World War II's Battle of Stalingrad.