Russian forces increased offensive operations and are attempting to gain ground in Marynka.

Russian forces increased offensive operations and are attempting to gain ground in Marynka.

Russian forces continued ground attacks around Bakhmut, in the Donetsk City-Avdiivka area, and in western Donetsk Oblast.

Russian forces launched a missile attack against the town of Pokrovsk, damaging houses and the central square.

Wagner Group mercenaries, many of them convicts reportedly recruited by Prigozhin personally, forced Ukrainian troops to evacuate the adjacent salt-mining town of Soledar.

The enemy is focusing its main efforts on conducting offensive operations at the Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk directions.