Zelenskiy expresses concern over tense situation in Bakhmut.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the military situation around the city of Bakhmut, besieged by Russian forces for months, was "especially hot". Russian forces have been trying to encircle and capture Bakhmut, and fighting has engulfed the city centre. Ukrainian forces had repelled 25 enemy attacks, but Russian forces had captured the AZOM metal plant, which Ukrainian troops had defended for days. Zelenskiy also reported two people had died in a Russian mortar attack near the town of Konotop in the northern region of Sumy, and earlier reports that Russian shelling had killed six people in the city of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.