Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said “there is no place that is not covered with blood” in the besieged city of Bakhmut as Russia also stepped up its attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson.
The southern city of Kherson was hit by 33 missiles in the 24 hours into Wednesday, Ukraine's army said – with a maternity hospital among the locations hit, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Zelensky's deputy chief of staff. No one was said to be hurt as the staff and patients had been moved to a shelter.
