Over the past 48 hours, hostilities have been concentrated around the Bakhmut direction of the Donetsk region and near Svatovoe in Luhansk.

Russia continues to carry out frequent small-scale attacks on these territories, although little territory has changed hands, according to the UK Ministry of Defense..

Particularly in the north, units of the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army were likely among the Russian forces recently deployed to Belarus..

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine recently stated that the Russians are still trying to break through the defenses of the defenders in the Bakhmut area, and that particularly intense fighting continues in the Avdiivka and Vugledar areas..

At the same time, near Bakhmut, the Russian military is losing thousands of its soldiers..