The latest from Arte Weekly: Bakhmut was „the city of roses”, but now it's completely destroyed

After almost 10 months of fighting, Russia says its taken full control of Bakhmut, an Eastern salt-mining city in Ukraine. But with schools, apartments, and shops all destroyed or severely damaged: what was the cost? ARTE Europe Weekly looks at the impact on a political, psychological, and human level. In the EU, a handful of countries have lowered the age of voting but as a wave of Gen Z voters prepare to head to the polls: how will this change the results? Finally, we meet French hip-hop artist Eesah Yasuke who takes on race and inequality in her music.

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