FOG BLOG CANADA LOG: 2 CANADIAN MEN KILLED IN BAKHMUT , RECENT CASUALTIES IN WAR ON UKRAINE!

2 Canadians killed in Ukraine's bloodiest battle in Bakhmut Canadian medic told CBC News he was heading to a 'meat grinder' before he died Two Canadians have been killed in action around the fiercely contested Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, with one of them telling CBC News before his death that the conditions on the front line were like a "meat grinder."

Kyle Porter, 27, of Calgary, and Cole Zelenco, 21, of St. Catharines, Ont., were both serving with Ukraine's International Legion, which was attached to the 92nd Mechanised Brigade.

The unit has been bearing the brunt of a ferocious Ukrainian effort to hold Bakhmut against a determined Russian attack.

The city in the eastern Donbas region has been the site of the longest running and bloodiest battle of the war, with thousands — if not tens of thousands — of casualties on both sides. Porter had been in contact with CBC News in the days leading up to his death. He had exchanged several text messages and shared his anxiety about the difficult conditions at the front.

"Let me figure out how I am going to survive the next few days…" he wrote three days before he was killed.

"It was a meat grinder the first time and I'm not expecting it any better this time round," he texted.