Ukrainian drones turn the Russia's"reliable rear" near Bakhmut into a military equipment cemetery
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Ukrainian drones are methodically destroying Russian weapons stockpiles and vehicles in the temporarily occupied town of Bakhmut. Olga Kosenko, press secretary of the 56th Mariupol Motorized Infantry Brigade, told Armyinform. According to her, the Russians had been stockpiling weapons in Bakhmut for years, believing the city was far enough from the front line. However, Ukrainian drone operators conduct constant aerial reconnaissance and have found large caches even under anti-drone nets. "The enemy covers them with camouflage and anti-drone nets, trying to protect them from Ukrainian drones. But they don't always succeed, because pilots find gaps and hit these large vehicles," she said. As Kosenko noted, the strikes aren't limited to warehouses. They're also targeting trucks, motorcycles, and ATVs used by small Russian infantry groups to move around the combat zone. This, according to the speaker, explains the occupiers' complaints about the shortage of shells in this section of the front. "This is due not only to global logistical issues but also to small local ones, as our pilots regularly identify field depots and positions," she explained. But satellite analysis of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian city that fell to Russian forces in May 2023, has found 97.4% of its multi-story residential buildings destroyed—placing it among the most thoroughly demolished urban areas of the war, according to Vot Tak. The outlet analyzed open-source satellite imagery from October 2024 and assessed 344 residential buildings of three stories or more across the city. Before Russia's full-scale invasion, Bakhmut was a district center in Donetsk region with more than 70,000 residents and a hub for salt mining, non-ferrous metal processing, and engineering.
Russia began regular artillery bombardment in May 2022; that August, Russian ground forces and the Wagner PMC launched coordinated assaults. Ukraine lost the city center by mid-April 2023, with Russia declaring full control on May 20 and Ukraine acknowledging the loss ten days later. Of the 344 buildings assessed, 6.7% were reduced to irrecoverable ruins—structures where most of the load-bearing mass had collapsed, in some cases leaving only a single stairwell standing.
Only 2.6% remained in any functional form. The bulk of the assessed stock fell in between: buildings with collapsed wings, floors, or major structural sections still standing as damaged hulks. The western districts of Yubileyny and Samolet sustained the worst losses, with high-rise apartment blocks converted into infantry strongpoints and firing positions by both sides throughout the final months of combat.
The scale of destruction reflects the battle's reliance on artillery and mass infantry assaults—a pattern that later shifted across the front as drone warfare reduced the need for such total demolition. Ukraine's official damage registry had recorded 16,300 properties in Bakhmut by October 2025, covering 82% of submitted claims. In June 2024, Oleksandr Marchenko, deputy head of the city's military administration, told Ukrainian radio outlet Vilne Radio that 99% of all residential structures had been destroyed, including roughly 15,000 private homes. He described the city's heating, gas, water, and power infrastructure as leveled entirely. Occupation authorities have offered no credible rebuilding plan in the three years since the city fell. Early proposals to have Tatarstan fund reconstruction produced nothing.
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