Fall of Bakhmut would signal ‘a Pyrrhic victory for Wagner’

Russia's 10-month campaign to capture Bakhmut has reduced most of the city to ruins [File: Libkos/AP]

Kyiv, Ukraine – According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Bakhmut resembles Hiroshima after the 1945 nuclear bombing.

The ravaged southeastern city, home to about 70,000 people before the war broke out, has been reduced to ruins after a 10-month-long siege.