KIEV – Russian forces continued their attacks on frontline towns in eastern Ukraine on Monday. According to Kiev, Russia is pressuring Ukrainian positions around the besieged Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region and other cities and towns with airstrikes and artillery shelling. “The enemy has resorted to scorched earth tactics from Syria. They are destroying buildings and positions with airstrikes and artillery shelling,” Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyj, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, said of Bakhmut. The head of the Moscow-controlled part of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said Russian forces now held 75 percent of the city.
