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US think tank says that while the city is of limited strategic value a win would be a symbolic one: Russia's composition in the prolonged battle for Bakhmut suggests the Kremlin is running out of cannon fodder.
63 Russian troops have been killed in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv forces struck a camp using US-supplied Himars systems, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov announces. Ukraine has claimed responsibility for the strike.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Lyman, a key town located in one of the four Ukrainian regions that Russia annexed, was "cleared" of Moscow's troops. The latest development in Ukraine's weeks-long counter-offensive against Moscow's invasion comes as Russia pushed forward with finalising the annexation of captured Ukrainian territories despite condemnation from Kyiv and the West.
Governor of the Luhansk region Sergei Haidai said that all critical infrastructure in the key city in eastern Ukraine has been completely destroyed while evacuation of civilians is impossible due to fierce fighting.
People in Kyiv responded in shock and fear to the news that Russia will be sending troops into Eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, some people in Donetsk celebrated the news. View on euronews
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.