Russians Are in Control of Most of Bakhmut, but Only by Destroying It
Amid parallels to Mariupol, the real Ukraine battle shapes up on the flanks.

Does anybody remember Mariupol? It’s the eastern Ukrainian city on the Black Sea coast that Russia conquered last year only by almost completely laying it to waste. About a year later, a similar fate appears to be in the cards for Bakhmut, with European and Ukrainian press reporting that the city is as much as 95 percent in Russian hands.
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