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As Bakhmut Collapsed Around Them, This Family Clung On

Roman Dmytriev refused to evacuate his family, including two teenage daughters, even as Russia squeezed Ukrainian soldiers out

The Dmytriev family were at a refugee center in Dnipro, central Ukraine, this month after reluctantly leaving their hometown, Bakhmut. Manu Brabo for The Wall Street Journal

By Isabel Coles

and Ievgeniia Sivorka

June 11, 2023 12:01 am ET

KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine—As Russia and Ukraine battled for control over the last blocks of the eastern city of Bakhmut last month, Roman Dmytriev went to check on a neighbor. He found him in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, killed by a missile that landed in his yard.

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