Special envoy to Bakhmout
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The dark, almost black sky, weighs even more heavily on the atmosphere of Bakhmout.
The muffled rumblings of the storm do not drown out the sounds of war rolling, not so far away, in the suburbs of this small town in Donbass.
Russian troops are in front of the city.
Last night, they entered a few streets to the east, but were pushed back
, slips a soldier.
Now the battlefield is no longer a sunflower field or a locality.
It has street names.
Ukrainians cling to the crossroads of Avenue Patrice-Lumumba, an artery lined like all the others with small run-down buildings, which runs straight towards the city center.
We will hold
on, assures the soldier.
This morning, in this same center, two municipal employees are toiling away trimming hedges.
They wear their regulatory yellow vests to avoid accidents.
Traffic is rare, however, except for a few army cars, painted green in a hurry, driving…
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