Citizens were killed as Russia intensified attacks across Ukraine

Russian troops will launch missiles and shells throughout Ukraine after the army announces that it will intensify its attacks.

After Russian troops announced that they would intensify their attacks on neighboring countries, Russian troops fired missiles and shells in cities and towns throughout Ukraine. Ukrainian officials report that at least 17 civilians were killed.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, “The Kyiv administration has taken action in all operational areas to eliminate the possibility of launching large-scale rockets and artillery on civilian infrastructure and residents of Donbus and other regions. He ordered further strengthening, his ministry said on Saturday.

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Russia’s military operations have focused on the eastern Donbas region, but new attacks have also hit the north and south regions. Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has recently been hit hard, with Ukrainian officials and local commanders imminent for a second full-scale Russian assault on a northern city. He has expressed concern that it may be.

At least three civilians were killed on Saturday in a pre-dawn Russian rocket attack on Chuhuiv, a city in northern Ukraine just 120 km (75 miles) from the Russian border, close to Kharkiv and three more. A person was injured. Said.

Serhiy Bolvinov, deputy chief of the Kharkiv local police, said the rocket had partially destroyed the two-story apartment building.

“Four Russian rockets, believed to have been launched around 3:30 am from around Belgorod, Russia (a Russian city), collided with houses, schools and administration buildings,” Borbinov wrote on Facebook. He said the bodies of three dead civilians were found under the rubble.

In the adjacent Sumy region, one civilian was killed and at least seven were injured after Russians fired mortars and bombardments in three towns and villages not far from the Russian border, regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky said. Said in a telegram on Saturday.

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The governor said on Saturday that seven civilians were killed and 14 were injured in a city attack in the last 24 hours in a confused area of ​​eastern Donetsk.

Later that day, in a suburb of the Donetsk city of Pokrovsk, a woman said a rocket attack killed her neighbor on Saturday afternoon. Tetiana Pashko told The Associated Press that she herself had a cut on her leg and one of her family’s dogs was killed.

She said her 35-year-old neighbor was murdered in her vestibule and evacuated earlier this year at the request of authorities, but she was unable to stand on her own and returned home. Several homes in a quiet residential area were damaged, with doors and roofs torn or torn.

In the adjacent Luhansk region, Ukrainian troops have repelled Russia’s nighttime attacks on the strategic eastern highway, said regional governor Serhiy Haidai, who has occupied the main road between Lysychans’k and Bakmut for more than two months. He added that he was trying.

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“They still can’t control a few kilometers of this road,” Haidai wrote in a telegram post.

The regions of Luhansk and Donetsk make up the eastern industrial area of ​​Donbus, which underpinned Ukraine’s economy, most of which has been occupied by Russia and separatist forces.

In southern Ukraine, two people were injured in Russian bombardment in the town of Bashtanka, northeast of the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv. He said Mykolaiv itself was exposed to a new Russian fire before dawn on Saturday. On Friday, he posted a video stating that it was a Russian missile attack on two of the city’s largest universities, accusing Russia of being a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

In the Black Sea port city of Odesa, Russian missiles crashed into warehouses, engulfed in flames and smoked black smoke, but no injuries were reported, local officials said.

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Citizens were killed as Russia intensified attacks across Ukraine

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