Western armour has begun to arrive – but many troops will still have to make do with old Soviet machines in the long-awaited counteroffensive
I do not look on the Russians as humans. I just need to destroy to free my people
There is something chilling about the way Oleksii calmly describes the fighting, justifying his work after he learned about the discovery ofkilled by the Russian occupiers at Bucha, north of Kyiv, early on the war. “I do not look on the Russians as humans,” he says without any emotion, adding: “I just need to destroy to free my people.” Such comments reflect the brutal necessity of the battle in Bakhmut – and the inherently dehumanising nature of war itself.
A patient from Bakhmut is treated in a hospital in Kostyantynvika after being injured by shrapnel from Russian shelling on 30 March.Recent developments back up the point. In March, the Russian advance in and around Bakhmut slowed, and the city centre remains in Ukrainian hands – for now.
Residents from east side of Kostyantynivka, nearest the frontline, have largely already made up their own mind, knowing that, despite the determined resistance, Bakhmut may fall at any time. The district on the far side of the railway is largely deserted, says Mykola Tereshchenko, an assistant mayor in the town, who adds that around 40 to 50 people a day are asking to be evacuated further west.
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