Salt is another product which has made Bakhmut well-known in Ukraine and beyond. Before the war, the salt-mining company Artemsil produced more than 7 million tonnes of salt a year, exporting it ...

The city of Bakhmut, whose capture was claimed by Russia on Saturday and denied by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, had a population of around 72,000 people before the war. The ...

Russian soldiers are using mines in temporarily occupied Bakhmut, the Donetsk region, for military purposes, setting up warehouses and field hospitals there, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing Nazar ...

Once a city of about 70,000 people in the Donetsk region, known for its sparkling wine and salt mines, Bakhmut has become emblematic of the savagery of this war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russian forces weren't occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow's insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Responding to a ...

The story of the mines begins at the end of the 19th century, when a German engineer named Edmund Farke contracted with the government of Bakhmut to extract gypsum for alabaster factories.

“The fight for the city of Bakhmut is continuing,” the Ukraine military's general staff said in a statement on Sunday evening.