A residential building was hit in Kryvyi Rig, in the center of the country, as Ukraine launched its counter-offensive.
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DRussian strikes on the industrial city of Kryvyi Rig in central Ukraine killed at least 11 people before dawn on Tuesday. Russia is thus continuing its tactics of night bombardments of the country in the midst of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
In the birthplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a “massive missile attack” hit several places in the city, including a residential building, according to local authorities. “A five-storey building was damaged,” the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration reported on Telegram.
According to regional governor Serguiï Lyssak, the death toll is eleven, after the discovery of a last body under rubble. The previous assessment reported 10 dead, one person under the rubble, 28 injured, including 12 hospitalized. The regional administration published a photo of the building badly damaged and blackened by flames, smoke billowing from the floors.
kyiv also targeted
In Kyiv, the military administration also reported nightly “cruise missile” strikes. “All enemy targets in the airspace around kyiv have been successfully detected and destroyed,” the source assured. For his part, the mayor of Kharkiv (north-eastern Ukraine), Ihor Terekhov, announced that drones had been launched “against civilian infrastructure”. The premises of a company and a hangar were damaged, according to the mayor.
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On Monday, June 12, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian army’s offensive is “difficult”, but “is progressing” after his administration assured during the day that it had taken back at least seven villages from Russian forces.
“Seven villages have been liberated,” said Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar on Telegram, referring in particular to several localities taken over in the Zaporizhia region. On Monday afternoon, the Ukrainian army also claimed to have made progress in the Bakhmout region.
Moscow, which has been saying for days that it has been repelling Ukrainian attacks, claimed for the first time on Tuesday the capture of German Leopard tanks and American Bradley armored vehicles, vehicles supplied by the West so that Kiev could carry out its vast counter-offensive.