On the 486th day of the Russian invasion and the aftermath of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed rebellion, which eventually turned around after mediation by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Russia claimed to have repelled several assaults by Ukrainian forces in the eastern Ukraine, where Kiev announced on Saturday evening that it had launched new offensives and made progress.
Russia said on Sunday it had repelled several assaults by Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine, where kyiv announced on Saturday evening that it had launched new offensives and made progress.
The Russian army “successfully repelled” the attacks carried out by Kiev forces in four areas of the front, in particular in the regions of Donetsk, in the east, but also in Zaporizhya, in the south, indicated the Russian ministry of the Defense in a press release, stating that ten of these attacks had been repelled near Bakhmout, in the east of the country.
Information to remember:
- Russia claims to have repelled several assaults by Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.
- A region in which kyiv announced that it had launched new offensives on Saturday evening.
- Five people died in Russian airstrikes on kyiv on Saturday morning.
The death toll of Saturday’s strikes in kyiv increased to 5 dead, according to the mayor
The death toll from a Russian airstrike on Kiev in the early hours of Saturday rose to five dead, the mayor of the capital said on Sunday after the discovery of two more people.
“Rescuers found the bodies of two more victims under the rubble in the Solomyan district (in Kyiv),” Mayor Vitaliy Klichko said on Telegram. “A total of five people died in the house hit by fragments of a Russian rocket,” he added.