How Russia took Bakhmut: 'It's about bleeding the other side'

The meat grinder, hell on earth, the fortress, a blackened nightmare, and now Europe’s Hiroshima.

Bakhmut has been called many things over the course of its nine-and-a-half month siege. Few descriptions capture the scale of loss and destruction. Which side - if any - has come out on top of this costly battle is unclear.

The small eastern city has undoubtedly been the site of