9 December 2022
![An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops](/assets/images/bakhmut/7226893594498693.jpg)
An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
— Photo by LIBKOS / AP Photo
![An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops](/assets/images/bakhmut/3837722874577544.jpg)
An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
— Photo by LIBKOS / AP Photo
![An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops](/assets/images/bakhmut/3287274852979482.jpg)
An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
— Photo by LIBKOS / AP Photo
![Local residents stand in the yard of their destroyed apartment building in Bakhmut](/assets/images/bakhmut/2532886223979375.jpg)
Local residents stand in the yard of their destroyed apartment building in Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 9, 2022.
— Photo by Yevhen Titov / Reuters
![Local residents walk down a street in Bakhmut](/assets/images/bakhmut/2472563722239336.jpg)
Local residents walk down a street in Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 9, 2022.
— Photo by Yevhen Titov / Reuters
![Smoke rises in this aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops](/assets/images/bakhmut/2739953323564857.jpg)
Smoke rises in this aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
— Photo by LIBKOS / AP Photo
![Stretchers are seen outside a city hospital, where wounded Ukrainian soldiers are brought for treatment, in Bakhmut](/assets/images/bakhmut/2449783652956523.jpg)
Stretchers are seen outside a city hospital, where wounded Ukrainian soldiers are brought for treatment, in Bakhmut, the site of heavy battles with Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
— Photo by LIBKOS / AP Photo
![An emergency worker and his dog warm up in front of a wood-burning oven in a shelter in Bakhmut](/assets/images/bakhmut/8445889442862227.jpg)
An emergency worker and his dog warm up in front of a wood-burning oven in a shelter in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
— Photo by LIBKOS / AP Photo