The battle for Bakhmut has descended into a hell-scape reminiscent of the First World War as throws troops into a fight described as 'a meat grinder'. is pounding Ukrainian trenches in the city - once home to 70,000 but now little more than a ruin - day and night with artillery before troops charge into front-on attacks against machine-gun nests.The no-mans land between the frontlines is now littered with shell holes, the skeletons of trees shredded by shell-fire, and the bodies of dead soldiers in eerie echoes of Passchendaele, Ypres or the Somme more than 100 years ago.
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