Last week, the military conflict in Ukraine turned 300 days old. In the reports of recent months, the name of the small town of Bakhmut appears more often than others. Vladimir Zelensky visited there, Yevgeny Prigozhin recorded video messages from there.
Bakhmut is located at the intersection of the most important roads of the DPR and the LPR — between Lugansk, Donetsk, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
What else do we know about this place and its history? For example, why is it called either Bakhmut or Artemovsk? We analyze in the new edition of the "Editorial Office. Context"