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Weekend Update #18 The End of the Battle of Bakhmut?

Weekend Update #18 The End of the Battle of Bakhmut?

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The End of the Battle of Bakhmut?

New video footage of Bakhmut shot from the air with a drone for The Associated Press shows how the longest battle of the year-long Russian invasion has turned the city of salt and gypsum mines in eastern Ukraine into a ghost town. The footage was shot Feb. 13. From the air, the scale of destruction becomes plain to see. Entire rows of apartment blocks have been gutted, just the outer walls left standing and the roofs and interior floors gone, exposing the ruins’ innards to the snow and winter frost – and the drone’s prying eye. (AP Photo)

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Nathaniel Greene, in 1775 after hearing about the results of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

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