5 killed in Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region
Refurbished Russian artillery barrages across Ukraine killed at least five civilians and wounded 18 others in the past days, the Office of the President of Ukraine reported on Wednesday, as Moscow expanded and consolidated its gains in the country’s east. tried to do.
Most of the deaths occurred in Donetsk province, part of the region where pro-Russian separatists have fought for eight years and the Kremlin is bent on taking over. Donetsk’s administrative head Pavlo Kirilenko said the city of Bakhmut suffered particularly heavy shelling as the current focus of Russia’s offensive.
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Governor Serhi Haidai said Ukrainian troops struggled to maintain control of two outlying villages in the nearby Luhansk province, which has been conquered by Russian and separatist forces.
Luhansk and Donetsk together form the Donbass region of Ukraine, a mostly Russian-speaking region, home to steel factories, mines and other industries important to the economy. “The Russians are deliberately turning the Donbass to ashes, and there are no people left in the occupied territories,” Haidai said.
Russian artillery also rained in northeastern Ukraine, where a regional governor, Oleg Sinihubov, accused the Russian military of trying to “terrorize civilians” in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city.
With Russia sighting in the east, Ukrainian forces seek to recapture the captured city in the south. The Ukrainian military claimed on Tuesday that it used missiles to destroy a Russian ammunition depot occupied by Nova Kakhovka, a town east of the Black Sea port of Kherson.
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The accuracy of the depot strike suggested that the Ukrainian military had employed the US-supplied Multiple-Launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, a type of weapon for which the government in Kyiv had repeatedly appealed.
Russia’s Tass news agency said the alleged explosion occurred when a mineral fertilizer storage facility exploded. Some ingredients in fertilizer can be used for ammunition.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian and Russian officials are expected to face off on Wednesday, the first time in months. Military delegations from both countries and Turkey plan to hold talks in Istanbul on a possible deal to extract grain from Ukraine’s blocked and mining ports.
Representatives of the United Nations were also involved in the talks. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion halted shipments, jeopardized food supplies in many developing countries and contributed to high global prices.
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In other developments:
The leader of a Moscow-backed separatist government in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province said foreign fighters convicted of terrorism and trying to overturn a constitutional mandate to work with Ukrainian soldiers have appealed for the death penalty.
If the appellate court in the separatists’ self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic rejects the appeal, two British men and a Moroccan could face firing squad. Rebel leader Denis Pushilin said about 100 members of the Ukrainian National Guard battalion captured after the fall of the city of Mariupol would soon be produced in a court.
The UN refugee agency said most Ukrainian refugees want to return to their country but plan to wait until the war is over. About two-thirds plan to stay in their host countries for now. Most of the refugees from Ukraine are women and children.
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The UN agency’s findings came in a survey based on 4,900 interviews with refugees in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Of the Ukrainian refugees surveyed, just one in 10 said they planned to move to another host country within the next month.
Ukraine’s emergency services agency says the death toll from a weekend Russian airstrike in the Donetsk city of Chasiv Yar has risen to 47. Rescue teams continued their search on Wednesday for survivors in the rubble of three apartment buildings that were hit by missiles. The buildings in a residential area of the city were mostly inhabited by people who worked in nearby factories.
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5 killed in Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region
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