Fighting under way on Bakhmutka road in Luhansk Oblast

“The consequences of shelling against certain localities are still being established,” the press service said.

Intense fighting with the use of heavy artillery weapons, tanks, Grad multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars continues on the Bakhmutka highway, it said.

Villages located along the road, primarily Krymske and Novotoshkivka, have been hit hardest by the armed clashes, it said.