Chasiv Yar & Bakhmut
Holding strong on the frontline - February 2023
![Ukrainian forces from the 80th Brigade of State Security defend the frontline of Bakhmut.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/L1008501-640x425.jpg)
As Russian forces continue the fierce offensive and attempt to besiege Bakhmut, the heavy artillery fire on the last access point of the devastated city is relentless.
![Ukrainian forces from the 80th Brigade of State Security defend the frontline of Bakhmut.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1008502-2-640x425.jpg)
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![Intense shelling everyday as Russian forces try to block the road that supplies the Ukrainian Armed forces.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1007962-640x425.jpg)
A few courageous volunteers dare venture here for the evacuation of people in extreme need of help
![Evacuation of an eldery woman.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1008070-640x425.jpg)
Reports of one humanitarian aid volunteer killed, two wounded others saved by helmets and vests.
![Point of unbreakability, Chasiv Yar.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1008091-640x425.jpg)
![Point of unbreakability, Chasiv Yar.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1008052-640x425.jpg)
![Statue of Russian writer and socialist political thinker Maxim Gorky, severed by Ukranians in Chasiv Yar during the Russian assault on Bakhmut.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1008235-640x425.jpg)
The road to Bakhmut through Chasiv yar, is called the road of death from there to Bakhmut.
![Soldiers are emotional as they rotate on the front line and have many losses.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1007952-2-640x425.jpg)
Armored vehicles and tanks go and come day and night. Heavy artillery fire can be heard during nights.
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![A Ukrainian serviceman suffers from a stroke on the road to the Bakhmut frontline](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1008438-640x425.jpg)
![woman in the dark looking through window in train at the lens.](https://federico-quintana.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/L1006372-640x423.jpg)