Soldiers do maintenance on tank in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine

By Diego Herrera Carcedo

DONETSK, Ukraine (AA) - Ukrainian soldiers near the city of Bakhmut in the country's eastern Donetsk region are doing maintenance work on military equipment vital for the ongoing war.

Maintenance work on a tank near the front line in Bakhmut continued as Ukrainian forces targeted trenches under the control of Russian forces through the Donetsk Oblast.

The city of Bakhmut, a transport and logistics hub in the eastern Donetsk region, a part of the largely Russian-speaking industrialized Donbas region that Moscow illegally annexed last year, has been the site of fierce fighting between Russia and Ukraine.​​​​​​​

*Writing by Burc Eruygur in Istanbul