Zelenskyy: Bakhmut will recover like Hiroshima did after atomic bomb

Mr Zelenskyy, speaking to reporters afterwards, said Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine that has been fiercely fought over for the past eight months, reminded him of the images he had seen of a “ruined” Hiroshima

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Ukraine will rebuild destroyed cities like Bakhmut in the same way that Hiroshima has recovered following the atomic bomb attack during the Second World War, the country’s leader has said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was in Hiroshima to address G7 leaders about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, visited the memorial to mark the Japanese city being the first place to experience the devastation of a nuclear bomb following the US attack in 1945.