Russia-Ukraine war latest updates: Heavy fighting in Bakhmut, Soledar

Fighting has intensified around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Kyiv warned Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian forces “have concentrated their greatest efforts” on Soledar, a salt mining town just three miles from Bakhmut, where the land is “covered with the corpses of the occupiers and scars from the strikes.”