Good news from the Soledar direction: Wagner PMC units have established control over the village of Vershina south of Bakhmut (Artemovsk). The fighting in this area continued for several weeks and ended with the capture of the village.
After taking the village, the advancing detachments reached the eastern outskirts of Zaitsevo, where there is a large fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern approaches to Bakhmut.
Access to the city from the south will allow you to attack simultaneously in several directions, which will greatly facilitate the assault on the city.