Seven civilians were killed and three others wounded on Monday in Bakhmout, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region that has been the scene of heavy fighting with the Russian army for months, the regional governor said on Tuesday.
Three bodies of previously killed civilians were also discovered in two towns in the region, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram.
The Ukrainian army, for its part, reported Russian offensives in the direction of Bakhmout, located in the north of the region, and the town of Avdiïvka, some fifty kilometers further south.
Thousands of square kilometers taken in September
On Monday, Ukrainian troops repelled Russian attacks near 10 towns, including Bakhmout, in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
By September, the Ukrainian army had recaptured thousands of square kilometers in the northeast and south in a successful counteroffensive. Since then, the fighting has been largely concentrated in the east of the country, while continuing around Kherson (south).
Source: BFM TV
