Russia-Ukraine war: situation in the east ‘very difficult’, Ukraine’s president says

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia is committing more troops in the battle for Bakhmut and other towns in Donetsk regionHello and welcome back to the Guardian’s ongoing live coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine.The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said the situation on the frontlines in the east of the country was getting tougher and Russia was throwing more and more troops into battle.The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said Zelenskiy has agreed that weapons supplied by the west will not be used to attack Russian territory. “There is a consensus on this point,” Scholz told Bild am Sonntag. Scholz rejected Vladimir Putin’s comparison of the intervention of the west with Russia’s struggle during the second world war as “absurd”. “We have carefully weighed each delivery of weapons, in close coordination with our allies, starting with America,” he said, adding that such a consensus-based approach “avoids an escalation”.The Ukrainian president has revoked the citizenship of severa