Moscow accuses Kiev of having bombed a bakery. The bodies of eight other Ukrainians were found in the rubble.
Lisichansk, located in the Donbass mining basin, fell to Russian forces after a bloody battle during the summer of 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the military deployed on the Zaporizhia front, in the south of the country. He highlighted that the military "faces the difficult and critical mission of repelling the enemy and defending Ukraine" The battle front in eastern Ukraine has remained almost static for months.