‘Everything is on fire’: Ukraine region weathers bombardment

A man rides a bicycle past a building damaged in Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Russian attacks have laid down a curtain of fire across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the region, almost four months after the Kremlin unleashed its invasion.

“Today everything that can burn is on fire,” Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, told the Associated Press (AP).