Four soldiers report their experiences from the battle of Bakhmut

Berlin The Ukrainian President summed up the situation in Bakhmut best: “There is not a place that is not soaked in blood, and not an hour when the terrible rumble of artillery does not ring out,” Volodymyr Zelensky said during his visit with US President Joe Biden in Washington at the end of 2022.

A few days earlier, Selenski had personally visited the city of formerly around 70,000 inhabitants in Donbass in eastern Ukraine. It is the “hottest point” in his country’s war against the Russian aggressor, said the President during his on-site visit at the time. At this point, the bitter battle for Bachmut had been raging for almost four months. Thousands of soldiers and civilians were already dead, more than twice as many injured.