Day 339 of the Invasion of Ukraine: Heaving Fighting for Vuhledar and Bakhmut

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Three people were killed in Russian strikes on a residential area in Ukraine

Three people were killed in Russian strikes on a residential area in the city of Konstantinovka in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing a Telegram message from the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kirilenko.

Kirilenko said four residential buildings and a hotel were damaged.

Heavy fighting is going on in Ukraine for Vuhledar and Bakhmut

Ukrainian forces continue fighting with Russian troops trying to break through the front lines in the east and northeast before Kyiv receives the tanks promised by its western allies. President Volodymyr Zelensky described the situation on the front as "extremely difficult".

In the past 24 hours, at least 10 people were killed when Russian artillery shelled settlements in the Kherson, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, local authorities reported. The city of Nikopol on the Dnieper is under fire.

President Volodymyr Zelensky reported heavy fighting for Vuhledar, southwest of the regional capital Donetsk, and Bakhmut, to the northeast, which has been largely destroyed by repeated Russian attacks.

"The situation on the front, and especially in the Donetsk region - near Bakhmut and Vuhledar - remains extremely difficult. The occupiers not only attack our positions - they deliberately and methodically destroy the towns and villages around them. Artillery, aviation, missiles. The Russian army has no shortage of means of destruction. And it can only be stopped by force."

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