Near Bakhmut, border guards neutralized several assault groups of Russian troops, the State Border Service reports in Telegram.

" As a result, one attack aircraft was eliminated, four wounded. In the other direction, three more enemy groups of infantry were moving to attack our positions.. Mortar crews of the border guards worked on the enemy and liquidated part of the militants,"

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Russian troops are stepping up pressure on the city, sending in waves of fighters to break Ukrainian resistance and attacking supply lines in a bloody campaign aimed at securing Moscow's first significant battlefield victory in months.. NYT talks about why both Russia and Ukraine threw so many forces on Bakhmut.