-Fighting reaches outskirts

Russian troops are inching toward the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, trying to establish a foothold close to a heavily defended area, Ukraine’s top army official said.
Kostiantynivka, along with other cities, forms a so-called fortress belt in the country’s east – an area well fortified by the Ukrainian military.
According to top Ukrainian military officials “We are repelling the Russian occupiers’ persistent attempts to gain a foothold in the outskirts of Kostiantynivka using infiltration tactics. Counter-sabotage measures are going on in the city.”
A Ukrainian battlefield mapping project called DeepState shows that Russian troops control an area around only one kilometre from the city’s southern outskirts.