More than 500 civilians are trapped alongside soldiers inside the Azot chemical factory • Ukraine says Russia plans to assault Sloviansk from the north and along a front near Bakhmut to the south.
The Russian army is trying to continue the strategic offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone, while inflicting missile strikes on industrial infrastructure and shelling civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
Russian troops continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Area in order to defeat the Joint Forces grouping, establish full control over the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and hold the land route with the occupied Crimea, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.