Russia-Ukraine war – as it happened: Moscow has turned entire city of Bakhmut to ‘burnt ruins’, says Zelenskiy

Ukraine's president says Russian shelling has actually destroyed' the city

Russian forces have destroyed" the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while Ukraine's military reported missile, rocket and airstrikes in multiple parts of the country.

The latest battles of Russia's nine-and-a-half-month war in Ukraine have centred on four provinces that Russian president Vladimir Putin illegally claimed to have annexed in late September, the Associated Press reported.