Intense fighting continues around Bakhmut with Ukrainian accounts stating the city is holding hard while Russian media claims it is almost cut off.

Intense fighting continues around Bakhmut with Ukrainian accounts stating the city is holding hard while Russian media claims it is almost cut off.

Ukraine’s National Guardsmen have destroyed a Russian ammunition dump and killed up to a unit of Russian personnel on the Bakhmut front.

The 3rd Operational Mission Brigade discovered the dump via aerial reconnaissance and fired mortars at the storage point containing grenade launchers, automatic grenade launchers, grenades and ammunition for small arms.

Russian forces conducted 85 attacks in the Bakhmut area.

Russian forces were intensifying their offensive to capture Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast.

The Defense Forces of Ukraine repulsed enemy attempts in the Vuhledar, Vodiane, Nevelske, and Mariinka directions.