‘For Today, Bakhmut Is Only in Our Hearts’

Zelensky delivers those words as Russia’s victory in the largest European battle since World War II starts to look Pyrrhic.

AP/Roman Chop
A Ukrainian soldier carries a portable anti-aircraft missile system in the area of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders at Bakhmut, March 15, 2023. AP/Roman Chop

President Putin will be striving to claim, as he began doing today, victory at Ukraine’s city of Bakhmut. It’s Europe’s largest battle since World War II. Bakhmut, though, while potentially Russia’s first victory in nearly one year, would be a Pyrrhic one.

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