A local resident crosses a makeshift pontoon of wooden pallets alongside a destroyed bridge in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on January 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Russia and Ukraine have both suffered heavy casualties in the fight for Bakhmut, and most of the city's pre-war population of 70,000 have left for safer territory, leaving behind cratered roads and buildings reduced to rubble and twisted metal. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)