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Russian forces maintained artillery fire and launched airstrikes along the T1302 Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway but had not completely severed the road as of July 1.

Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast
Likely Reported by 2 independent sources
Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Post

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Entities

Russian forces (military_unit) T1302 Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway (location) Wagner Group (military_unit) Rybar (organization) Ukrainian officials (organization) Ukrainian General Staff (organization) Siversk (location) Olenivka prison (location) Azovstal (location)

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Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Russian forces maintained artillery fire and launched airstrikes along T1302 highway

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: likely

Russian forces have not completely severed the T1302 road

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Over 50 Ukrainian POWs were killed in the Olenivka prison attack

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack, but independent experts called it a deliberate war crime by Russia

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:56:36.903Z

Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-29