No, this is not footage from Sam Mendes' new film about the Battle of Verdun or the Somme. It is about the trenches near Bakhmut.
The Ministry of Defense published a video from Ukrainian fortifications near Bakhmut on Donetsk region and compared the situation at the place of deployment of the Armed Forces in this direction with the battle on the Somme during the First World War.
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No, this is not footage from Sam Mendes' new film about the Battle of Verdun or the Somme. These are trenches near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, which the Ukrainian infantry has been holding for several months under heavy fire from the Russians. pic.twitter.com/ZDjqi6wFMb
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) October 15, 2022
“No, this is not footage from Sam Mendes' new film about the battle near Verdun, or on the Somme. We are talking about the trenches near Bakhmut, which the Ukrainian infantry have been holding for several months under heavy fire from the occupiers,” the message says.
The Battle of the Somme was an offensive operation in July–November 1916 by Anglo-French forces against German forces on the Somme River in Northern France. Then the allied forces took over the strategic initiative from the hands of Germany, this became a harbinger of its defeat.
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