The following is a translated excerpt from Myroslav Laiuk’s book Bakhmut, which Ukraїner released at the end of 2023. During the most intense fighting in Bakhmut in winter 2022 and in March 2023, author Myroslav Laiuk and photographer Danylo Pavlov lived day and night with Ukrainian infantrymen and artillerymen, medics and chaplains, rescuers and children in the city and its surroundings, under artillery shelling and amid street battles. The result of those trips is a book of reports and essays about life during wartime, irreparable losses, the history of Bakhmut, and the phenomenon of memory and forgetting.