Fighting Persists Near Bakhmut Despite Ceasefire Attempts

Despite a recent easing of combat in Bakhmut, clashes around the obliterated city in eastern Ukraine continue with Moscow suffering significant losses, Kyiv's armed forces said on Sunday. Ukraine said late last month that fighting had eased in the area, but the commander of the nation's ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces continued their fight there. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has compared Bakhmut's destruction to the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Japan's Hiroshima in World War Two. Kyiv hopes the counteroffensive will change the dynamics of the war that has raged since Russia invaded its smaller neighbour 15 months ago.