Ukraine war: Paramedics treat woman in battered Bakhmut during intense aerial attack
Sky correspondent John Sparks has been visiting a neighbourhood in Bakhmut, that, like many others in Ukraine, has been intensively shelled by the Russians. By John Sparks, Sky News correspondent, in Donetsk region Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player There are days in Bakhmut that are more difficult than others - although no day is easy in this battered city. Once home to 100,000 people, it's now a military objective for the Russian army, the gateway to key industrial cities in eastern Ukraine. But the city has become a major obstacle for Russian generals, who have been pounding its neighbourhoods with rockets and shells News blackout in southern Ukraine means 'something big is going on' - war latest Members of the city's ambulance crew deal with the human consequences of this, and we followed them to the outskirts of Bakhmut, several kilometres from the front line. The paramedics found a woman lying on the side of the road with clouds of smoke billowing behind