Bakhmut: The Battleground for Ukraine and Russia

Russian forces have been pounding the city of Bakhmut, the focal point of their attempts to capture the eastern Ukrainian industrial region of Donbas, and the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force said Ukrainian troops were pouring in ahead of an "inevitable" counter-offensive. The Ukrainian military has vowed to defend the city, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suggested they might pull out if in danger of encirclement. The governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv said Russian missiles had hit an apartment building and a private house in the city of the same name, killing one person and injuring 15.