The city of Bakhmut became a center of the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and the site of one of the longest and deadliest battles of the war.Here is a look at how the battle unfolded: Residents of Bakhmut trying to extinguish a fire using buckets of water after rockets hit homes in the area in July.Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times When two Ukrainian cities in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine fell to Russian forces in quick succession last summer, Bakhmut, a city about 30 miles to the southwest, became the next target of Russia's campaign to secure the whole of the Donbas.
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