Occupiers trapped by AFU in Bakhmut. Details

Over the past 24 hours there have been 38 skirmishes on Ukrainian territory, according to this morning's report by the General Staff. There has been intense combat activity in Liman and Bakhmut districts of Donetsk Region, with the Russian occupation troops in Bakhmut itself effectively encircled.

According to Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Anna Malyar, the occupiers have faced problems in moving around and are unable to leave the city.

On the one hand they control most of the city, we control the south-western part only. But they cannot move around the city, because our armed forces do not allow them to do this, so they cannot even leave the city. Because our forces don't let them do that either," Malyar said during a national TV marathon.

She also noted that the situation around Bakhmut remains tense. Ukrainian troops are advancing on the southern flank in some places, while there is fighting on the northern flank.

It will be too early to call it an advance because the situation may change several times during the day. Until our troops get a foothold, we usually do not talk about advancement," she said.

At the same time, the Defence Ministry stressed that it is "very, very hot again" around Bakhmut, and the Russians have been pulling up airborne assault troops in recent days.

Airborne units, infantry units, Bars units, units of some PMCs like Veteran or Patriot, which are affiliated with the Russian Defence Ministry, as well as the newly created Storm-Z assault companies have been deployed to the Bakhmut direction instead of the Vagnerians.

Cherevatyi, a representative of the Eastern grouping of AFU troops, noted that the grouping of Russian troops in the Bakhmut direction is so "motley" because the Russian Federation simply has nothing to replenish the personnel with.

Malyar, however, recalled that the occupiers are pulling up all their reserves and are not going to give up their positions simply, and they also do not give up their plans to reach the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The enemy is concentrating its main efforts in the Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Mariinsk directions. Russian assaults have been repelled.

But in fact, if you summarize the result: we are gradually but still advancing, the enemy is not advancing in any of the directions where it is advancing," said Malyar.

We shall remind you that overnight, the enemy launched another missile strike against Ukraine. The Russian Federation used six missiles against Ukraine at night with a total of 36 missiles.

According to the Southern Defence Force spokeswoman, Russia used at least three surface and three submarine missiles. Gumenyuk also stressed that the Kalibers fired from the sea can travel considerable distances, so they are dangerous for all of Ukraine.

This night was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in Lviv. There was a direct hit on a residential building. Rescuers continue to clear the rubble

A total of about 60 flats and 50 cars were damaged. Four people were killed and 9 others injured.

Over the past 24 hours, our aviation carried out 13 strikes on the areas of concentration of the occupier's personnel and destroyed 1 anti-aircraft missile system of the Russians.

The Ukrainian armed forces also hit 1 area of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the Russian troops, 4 command posts, 1 ammunition depot, 8 artillery weapons in firing positions, 2 air defence facilities, 1 radar station and 4 electronic warfare stations.