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This week, Business Insider publishes its most extensive work yet on the fighting in Ukraine — an exploration of the horrific struggle for the city of Bakhmut.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the city was, for much of 2023, among the deadliest places on earth.
Our aim is to give our readers a visceral account of what happened there, and its significance to a war that has been raging for almost two years.
We've broken our reporting down into different parts — the most significant a 6,000-word narrative depicting standout moments.
A clutch of other stories, publishing through late December, zoom in on particular moment and characters: