We lurch to a halt on the rain-lashed hillside, where two mud tracks merge into a quagmire. An unwelcome message has just been received by our special forces escort.The 'safer' detour into the Bakhmut salient is no longer passable by vehicle. That track is now being laid with anti-tank mines by Ukrainian sappers; a further sign, perhaps, that the encirclement or evacuation of the besieged town may be close, if not imminent.
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