dead. Second Offensive on Paraskoviivka (31 January 2023 - 7 February 2023) On 31 January 2023, one person was reported dead after days of attacks in Paraskoviivka, Bakhmut and Vuhledar along with one seriously wounded on 6 February. Attacks intensified across the next few days and on 2 February it was reported that Krasna Hora was encircled and the Russians were pushing to encircle Paraskoviivka from the north and the south. On 4 February, Russian forces and PMC Wagner were reported to have started a large assault on the settlement, and by 7 February they had established full fire control over the city and entered the northern part of the city. Siege of Paraskoviivka (10 February 2023 - 18 February 2023) By 10 February 2023, Paraskoviivka and Krasna Hora were reported to have been partly encircled. On 11 February 2023, Russian forces captured all of northern Paraskoviivka as the Ukrainian forces were reported be encircled inside the southern part. The settlements were on a strategic highway between Bakhmut - Slovyansk, and on the same day, it was reported that PMC Wagner had captured Krasna Hora. Paraskoviivka was then attacked from all sides. Initial reports suggested that there were at least 1,500 Ukrainian soldiers inside the settlement, which was later dismissed. On 13 February 2023, Ukrainian forces launched a small counter-attack which pushed the Russians out of M03 highway but a large counter-attack came later on in the day making the Russians re-establish control over it, on the same day, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the situation in Paraskoviivka as very ''difficult''. By the next day the settlement came under siege, with fire control in the south, control over the entire north, the west under fire control and the east under massive pressure. Paraskoviivka was reported to have been captured on 17 February, after heavy fighting during the preceding two days. and a heavy siege which had caused damage in the settlement, but fighting officially ended on 18 February. References Villages in Bakhmut Raion