{"id":23855,"date":"2023-05-18T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2023-05-18T21:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:47:59","slug":"bakhmut-has-been-erased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/bakhmut-has-been-erased\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakhmut Has Been Erased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians have pushed the Ukrainian troops out of the last of the high rise buildings in the west of Bakhmut.\u00a0 Currently the Ukrainians are contesting areas north and south of the city.\u00a0 There are estimates that the Ukrainian forces west of Bakhmut number between 10,000 and 30,000.\u00a0 There is speculation that instead of the Ukrainian counter-offensive occurring in the south it might instead occur around Bakhmut.<\/p>\n<p>The video footage I&#8217;ve seen of the city as it currently exists is shocking.\u00a0 If Bakhmut had received a one megaton nuclear detonation at the center of the city it would not look any more devastated than it currently does.\u00a0 Except for the skeletons of a few high rise buildings at the western edge, it&#8217;s been reduced to pulverized rubble.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on there is madness.\u00a0 This is civil war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bakhmut-18MAY2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23854\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bakhmut-18MAY2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bakhmut-18MAY2023.jpg 689w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Bakhmut-18MAY2023-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Panorama of Bakhmut taken from a drone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ko8oXkzZWX\">pic.twitter.com\/Ko8oXkzZWX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nexta_tv\/status\/1650589174091620358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians have pushed the Ukrainian troops out of the last of the high rise buildings in the west of Bakhmut.\u00a0 Currently the Ukrainians are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3107,3942],"class_list":["post-23855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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