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'It's like Verdun': The grinding battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

Ukrainian servicemen make a trench near Bakhmut

Ukrainian servicemen make a trench near Bakhmut, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. PHOTO | YASUYOSHI CHIBA | AFP

By  AFP

Bakhmut

An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

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