Zelenskyy says Russia has reduced Bakhmut city to a 'burnt ruin'

Russian attacks have turned the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut into "burnt ruins", President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, while Ukraine's military has reported missile, rocket and drone attacks in multiple parts of the country that have killed civilians and destroyed critical infrastructure. Zelenskyy said on Saturday that the situation "remains very difficult" in several front-line cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. For a long time, there is no living place left on the land of these areas that have not been damaged by shells and fire," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, naming cities that have again found themselves under sustained Russian barrages. "The occupiers actually destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army turned into burnt ruins," he said. Zelenskyy also said that more than 1.5 million people were without power in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa after a night attack by drones.