Ukraine says several people have been killed by Russian shelling in the eastern city of Severodonetsk.
Russian forces are focused on trying to capture more territory in the Donbas, comprising the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Moscow claims on behalf of pro-Russian separatists.
Al Jazeera's @Assed Baig reports from Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine.

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