Russian Troops Are Pummeling Bakhmut In Donbas: It’s Unclear Why

By Mike Eckel

(RFE/RL) — In a courtyard outside a battered apartment building in the eastern city of Bakhmut, the crackle of a makeshift fire on which an elderly woman named Alla was trying to boil water was occasionally interrupted by the crack, whistle, and thump of incoming Russian artillery.

She didn’t...