The killing fields of Bakhmut — what would Vasily Grossman say?

Vasily Grossman, Soviet war correspondent

As only he could, famed Soviet war correspondent Vasily Grossman, himself a son of Ukraine, evoked the brutal and bloody reality of war in his tireless work while following the fortunes of the Red Army on the Eastern Front during WWII.

Grossman:

The head of the driver of a heavy tank had been torn off by…