Dmytro Drozd provided medical assistance during mortar shelling in Velyki Novosilky, saving an 89-year-old woman with broken legs and attending to a 58-year-old teacher who died from a crushed skull.

Dmytro Drozd gained his first combat experience in Velyki Novosilky at the end of June, saving a woman during mortar shelling and witnessing the death of a civilian teacher.

Human Rights Watch urged Kyiv to keep its pledge to investigate the alleged use of banned land mines by the Ukrainian military.

In January, Human Rights Watch called on Ukraine to investigate alleged firing of antipersonnel mines into Russian-occupied territories near Izium between April and September 2022.

Photos posted to social media in May 2023 show remnants of artillery rockets that exclusively carry antipersonnel mines in eastern Ukraine.

Human Rights Watch shared alleged evidence in a letter to the Ukrainian government on May 28 but has not received a response.

The enemy has up to 50,000 people in the Bakhmut direction, including more than 300 tanks, more than 330 artillery systems, and 140 rocket salvo systems.

There are no Wagner mercenaries in the Bakhmut direction currently.