Ukraine has been fending off the full-scale Russian invasion for almost 15 months. On Saturday, Russia declared the heavily contested city of Bakhmut completely captured. The largely destroyed city in the Donetsk region had over 70,000 inhabitants before the war. Fighting in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has eased, according to Ukrainian sources. Russian units were continuing to comb the districts they control for Ukrainian soldiers, and fighting was still ongoing in the suburbs, Is the war likely to end this year ?