Hell returns to Europe: A century after the horrors of Passchendaele, images from the Battle of Bakhut in Ukraine reveal similarly dreadful scenes

 Hell returns to Europe: A century after the horrors of Passchendaele, images from the Battle of Bakhut in Ukraine reveal similarly dreadful scenes

• Russia is pouring men into front-on attacks on Ukrainian trenches in muddy hell that is the Battle of Bakhmut 
• It is hauntingly reminiscent of one of the First World War's darkest moment, the Battle of Passchendaele 
• Allied troops spent four months and almost 300,000 men trying to taken the Passchendaele ridge - only to cede it back to Germany a year later without a shot fired, summing up the futility of the conflict 
  
  
  

• It was a lesson hard-learned in the mud and blood of Flanders: How thousands of lives can be thrown away for nothing. But now, more than 100 years later, horror scenes that echo one of the First World War's bloodiest battles are once again playing out on European soil. 

  Vladimir Putin is pouring Russian troops into the maw of Ukrainian machine-guns in the town of Bakhmut, with troops charging across a muddy hell-scape pock-marked with shell holes and strewn with the corpses of their own comrades, under the wail of artillery fire and into Kyiv's trenches.

  It is hauntingly reminiscent of The Battle of Passchendaele, when in 1917 Allied troops were forced to fight the Germans in mud sometimes chest deep, slogging uphill for four months under withering fire at a loss of almost 300,000 men, only to cede it back the following year without firing a shot.

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