Russia-Ukraine updates: ‘Few’ left in Bakhmut, says Zelenskyy

President Zelenskyy says Bakhmut was the home of 70,000 people last year and now “only a few” are left.

Pilaheia Mykhailivna, 73 puts wood she and her neighbours chopped up from cutting down municipal city trees, into a wheelbarrow, to burn for heat
Few residents have remained during intense shelling in Bakhmut [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]
By Edna Mohamed, Beatrice Zemelyte and Federica Marsi
Published On 28 Dec 2022

This blog is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war for Wednesday, December 28: