Moscow forces have unleashed a fierce attack on Ukrainian forces on the front line of the eastern city of Adviika, says Ukraine’s General Staff.
Fighting has been particularly intense in the eastern city of Avdiivka, where Moscow is attempting to encircle Kyiv’s troops, while Ukrainian forces have also been on the defensive in Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia, officials said.
One civilian was killed and two injured in a Russian artillery strike in the frontline town of Toretsk, less than 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from Bakhmut, said Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin.
It comes as at least 28 people were killed in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk following a Ukrainian attack on a bakery in the city, Moscow said on Sunday.
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said “dozens of civilians” were in the building at the time of the attack and that Western weapons were used.
At least one child was among those killed in the attack, according to local leader Leonid Pasechnik.
The Russian-controlled Luhansk Information Centre said Ukraine shelled the bakery using the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).