It was mesmerising. Nothing beats wine-testing underground. "It is one of the main symbols of Bakhmut, and it had a soul. Company workers planted a vineyard right next to the main office ...

Bakhmut was home to around 70,000 people, and was known for its salt mines and sparkling wine production. Now it is battered, and largely lifeless. Iryna - a 48-year-old in a bright yellow jacket ...

Before the Russians occupied Bakhmut, the city was a major center of sparkling-wine production. During the Cold War, Stalin, facing a champagne ban, ordered the establishment of a high-end ...

Newly released drone footage shows the almost complete ruin of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut following months of some of the bloodiest fighting since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in ...

History has a way of repeating itself. More than a hundred years later, smoke rises from the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. Sitting on the front line in the ferociously-contested Donbas ...