KYIV: Ukraine said it had fought off a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut Saturday as it endured a fresh wave of shelling in the disputed Donetsk region.

Ukrainian officials meanwhile recovered the bodies of two British volunteers, killed trying to help evacuate people from the eastern warzone.

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