Intense fighting continued in Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut

, with Russian forces continuing their offensive to capture the key city, the Ukrainian military said. The military also said that many cities in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions have been subjected to shelling by Russian forces in the past 24 hours.

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• In accordance: Russia claimed to have captured a village on Bakhmut's outskirts, although there was no immediate response from Ukraine on the state of Blahodatn, Reuters reported.