Heavy Russian shelling in the east; Ukraine strikes important bridge
Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that Russian forces claimed gains and surrounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, as Ukrainian forces retaliated to try to retake occupied southern territory.
According to the mayor, three people were killed and 13 others were injured in a Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk on Friday night. In the war-torn east of the country, the Ukrainian army is headquartered in Kramatorsk.
The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city, one of two main Ukrainian-held rockets in Donetsk province, the focus of an ongoing Russian offensive to capture the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
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The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday that its forces have captured Pisky, a village on the outskirts of the provincial capital Donetsk city, claimed by pro-Moscow separatists since 2014.
Russian military and Kremlin-backed rebels are seeking to expand the self-declared republic of separatists to annex Ukraine-held areas north and west of the city of Donetsk. But Ukraine’s military said on Saturday that its forces had halted overnight progress toward the small towns of Avdeevka and Bakhmut.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov also claimed that Russian strikes near Kramatorsk, 120 kilometers (75 mi) north of the city of Donetsk, destroyed several US-supplied rocket launchers and ammunition. Ukrainian officials did not acknowledge any military losses, but said Russian missile strikes on Kramatorsk on Friday destroyed 20 residential buildings.
None of the claims could be independently verified.
The Ukrainian governor of neighboring Luhansk province, which is part of fighting over the Donbass region and was captured by Russian forces last month, claimed Ukrainian troops still occupied a small area. Writing on the Telegram, Luhansk Governor Serhi Haidai said rescuers were hiding inside an oil refinery on the shores of Lisichansk, a city that Moscow claimed to have captured, and also controlled areas near a village. does.
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“The enemy is burning the ground at the entrance to the Luhansk region because it cannot overcome these few kilometers (with Ukrainian resistance),” Haidai said. “It is difficult to count how many thousands of shells this area of the liberated Luhansk region has suffered in the past month and a half.”
Further west, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region reported more Russian shelling of the city of Nikopol, which is located across the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Governor Yeven Yevtushenko did not specify whether Russian troops fired at Nikopol from the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Writing on Telegram, he said on Saturday that there were no casualties but residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged.
Nikopol has been bombed daily for most of the past week, he said, and on Thursday three people were killed and 40 apartment buildings were damaged in the shelling.
Russian and Ukrainian officials have for days accused each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhya plant in violation of nuclear safety regulations. Russian troops have occupied the plant since the early days of the invasion of Moscow, although the facility’s pre-war Ukrainian nuclear workers continue to run it.
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency alleged on Saturday that Russian troops were shelling the plant from a village a few kilometers away, damaging a plant’s pumping station and a fire station. The Intelligence Directorate said the Russians had barricaded people into the power plant and mounted a Ukrainian flag on a self-propelled gun on the outskirts of Enerhodar, where the plant is located.
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“Obviously, this will be used for another provocation to accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the directorate elaborated.
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly alleged that Russian forces were using the plant as a shield when firing at communities across the river, knowing it would shoot back Ukrainian forces for fear of triggering a nuclear accident. was not likely.
A woman was killed and two other civilians were injured in Russian shelling Friday night in the city of Zaporizhzhya, which is 122 kilometers (76 miles) from the plant, they said. Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region also said a woman was killed in the shelling.
For several weeks, the Ukrainian military has tried to lay the groundwork for a retaliatory strike to reclaim the Russian-occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine. A Ukrainian local official said on Saturday that a Ukrainian strike damaged the last working bridge over the Dnieper River in the region and further paralyzed Russian supply lines.
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Heavy Russian shelling in the east; Ukraine strikes important bridge
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