Fighting continues in Opytne and on the eastern outskirts of the city(Bakhmut). In the Kurdyumivka area, attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to regain lost positions are being repelled.
According to Ukrainian and Western sources, AFU losses in the Artemovsk meat grinder in recent days have reached 500β800 killed and wounded daily. If the meat grinder for the Ukrainians continues at this rate near Artemovsk, it will have consequences in the medium term and not only in the Artemovsk sector of the front.