Russian shelling of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Sunday left at least three people dead and six injured, President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced, while a Russian strike the same day in Kharkiv killed one person, according to the regional governor. “The Russian army brutally shelled Kherson all day… A hospital, a post office, a bus station were damaged. Two nurses were injured in the hospital. A total of six injured and three dead are reported “, declared the Ukrainian president in his daily video message, broadcast in the evening.
The regional administration had reported earlier three dead and six injured including a nurse. In Kharkiv, in the east of the country, the governor of the military administration of the region reported that a Russian strike on Sunday hit “a four-storey residential building”.
“Three victims received minor injuries. Unfortunately, an elderly woman died. (…) The building was partially destroyed. The inhabitants were evacuated. described Oleg Synegoubov on Telegram overnight from Sunday to Monday.
Ukrainian strike kills four in Zapororizhya, Russian authorities say
In an area under Russian control in the neighboring region of Zapororijjia, in the south of the country, the authorities installed by Moscow indicated that four people had been killed by a Ukrainian strike on a railway bridge. The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has recently been much calmer than that in the eastern part of the country, where fierce fighting is taking place, but the shelling from both sides Others never stopped and fighting resumed this week in the Zaporizhia region.
The head of the pro-Russian administration installed by Moscow in Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, for his part accused Ukraine of having committed “a strike with Himar multiple rocket launchers against a railway bridge spanning the Molotchnaya river” .
“Four members of a railway brigade were killed, five were injured and are being treated medically,” he added. The bridge is in the villa of Svetlodinskoye, north of the city of Melitopol controlled by Russian forces. According to the same source, work was underway on this infrastructure.
kyiv denies that the Russian army is advancing in Vougledar
Ukraine denied on Monday that Russian troops were advancing, as Moscow claims, near the town of Vougledar, a new hot spot on the front in eastern Ukraine where fighting has intensified lately. “Our units continue to advance (…) Units have established themselves in the east of Vougledar and the work continues in the surroundings”, said in the morning the head of the Russian occupation in the Donetsk region. , Denis Pushilin, quoted by the Russian agencies. A spokesman for the Ukrainian army in charge of this area, Yevguen Ierine, assured AFP that the Russian attacks in the area had failed. According to him, the Ukrainian forces were able to repel the Russians using “firearms and artillery”.
“The enemy did not register success and retreated. We did not lose our positions”, maintained Mr. Ierine. For his part, Mr. Pushilin affirmed that the Ukrainian army had entrenched itself in an area which has “a large number of industrial sites and high buildings”, which facilitates defensive operations. “We assume that the enemy will resist,” he continued. For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense remained vague, saying that its troops “took more advantageous positions” on the outskirts of Vougledar by inflicting losses on the Ukrainian forces.
Vougledar, a mining town which had 15,000 inhabitants before the Russian offensive, is located 150 kilometers south of Bakhmout, another hot spot on the eastern front that the Russian army has been trying to take for more than six months at the cost of heavy losses. Denis Pushilin said on Monday that “fierce fighting” was underway near Bakhmout and that it was “too early” to talk about an encirclement of the city by Russian troops. “Fighting is underway, we are holding the lines of defense by inflicting losses on them,” another Ukrainian military spokesman, Sergey Tcherevaty, told AFP.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Bakhmut, Vougledar and other areas of the Donetsk region were under “constant Russian attacks”. The Kremlin has vowed to conquer the entire Donetsk region after claiming annexation in September along with three other Ukrainian regions: Lugansk in the east, Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south.