Ukraine Armed Forces personnel been digging trenches in the centre of Bakhmut city. Now, Ukraine tanks in residential areas, 'street-fighting about to begin'. Bakhmut been dubbed 'the meat grinder' due to brutal trench warfare & artillery duels. Russians must take Bakhmut to advance on key regional hubs of Sloviansk & Kramatorsk. Russians seeking to encircle Bakhmut by taking nearby villages & cutting off a key road. Russian forces been pummeling Bakhmut since summer, a city once home to 70,000 people. Part of the Donetsk region in the east, Bakhmut is a wine-making and salt-mining city.