Day 383 of the Invasion of Ukraine: The Ukrainian Army is Repulsing all Russian Attacks on Bakhmut

Day 383 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

• Ukrainian command: All Russian attacks on Bakhmut have been repulsed
• Ukraine and Russia claim hundreds of victims of the fighting in Bakhmut over the past 24 hours
• Military expert: The Ukrainian army has destroyed Russian units in Bakhmut, enough for a repeated assault on Kyiv
• The Institute for the Study of War: Russia's Bakhmut offensive appears to be faltering
• Russian wives, mothers call on Putin to stop forcing husbands, sons to join assault groups
• No more men: Russia is also sending female prisoners to the front in Donbas
• HRW raises alarm about children from orphanages in Ukraine
• Moldova announced it had foiled a Russia-linked plot ahead of anti-government protests
• Switzerland decided to scrap 60 air defense systems instead of sending them to Ukraine

Ukrainian command: All Russian attacks on Bakhmut have been repulsed

The situation around Bakhmut remains difficult, but Ukrainian forces are repelling all Russian attempts to capture the city, said the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Monday, quoted by Reuters.

"The situation around Bakhmut remains difficult. All enemy attempts to capture the city have been repelled with artillery, tanks and other firepower," Sirsky was quoted as saying on the Telegram messaging platform of the Ukrainian Media Military Center.

Syrskyi added that the Russian mercenary group "Wagner" was "attacking from...