Made this to show the ferocity of the shelling. The area around Bakhmut in 2023 compared to Northern France in 1918 during WW1. The similarity is heartbreaking.

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1. I learned recently about the Zone Rouge that still exists in France today. These are regions deemed unsafe and uninhabitable from the effects of unexplored ordinance of WW1 (includes gas shells and arsenic-contaminated lands with an estimated 300 shells per hectare – govt estimate in 2005). The wooded areas became known as “les bois mitraillés” – roughly, the machine-gunned forests, whose lumber *to this day* cannot be harvested because of the bullets still lodged in it cause injuries and damaged equipment. The parallels with Ukraine are absolutely heartbreaking. Have we, as a species, learned nothing in the last 100 years? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge?wprov=sfti1)

2. In both wars the Russian were the cause of it…

3. Its worth remembering the moonscape in 1918 France is not just one barrage, that land had been ploughed heavily for many years. The picture shows only the latest bombardment not the grand total of all of them.

   One of the main reasons why there are still so many missing in action from the great war is due to constant heavy bombardments bodies were simply vaporized.

   Bakhmut is bad but the western front was horrific Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele are in another league.

4. Verdun is up to 1 million artillery shell per day

5. And this is what Bakhmut looked like before the ruzzian terrorists turned into ruins.

   https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1648584318258749445?t=eT4RgMHBWo98Aq9IpQXX6g&s=19

   Never forget.