Oct 9 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces are making some headway in both the eastern and southern theatres of their four-month-old counteroffensive, military officials said on Monday. Russian accounts of the fighting said Moscow's forces had repelled Ukrainian attacks near the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut and inflicted heavy casualties in strikes on Ukrainian positions outside the city. In the south, Kyiv wants to advance to the Sea of Azov to sever a Russian land bridge linking areas it occupies in the south and east. Ukrainian prosecutors in Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia's campaign in the east, said Russian forces had shelled areas east of the Russian-held town of Donetsk, killing one person. Nineteen months after Russia's invasion, its forces about 18% of Ukrainian territory, according to Western estimates.

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Persons: Ilia Yevlash, Yevlash, Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ron Popeski, Leslie Adler Organizations: Russian Locations: Bakhmut, Kyiv, Azov, Andriivka, Klishhiivka, Klishchiivka, Donetsk, Russian, Avdiivka, Verbove, Ukraine, Tokmak