According to Ukrainian sources, Russia continues to attack civilian targets. According to this, dozens of projectiles hit southern Nikopol. Meanwhile, in Donetsk, the separatists are reporting violent Ukrainian attacks. And Russia claims to have repelled an advance by Ukraine.
Ukraine has blamed the Russian army for more attacks on civilian targets. In Nikopol alone in the south of the country, more than 30 projectiles fell, said the deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, via telegram. Six people were injured, more than 20 houses and several power lines were damaged, it said. Battlefield reports cannot be independently verified. Nikopol is located opposite the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which was shelled several times recently – on the other bank of the Dnipro River, which was formed here into a reservoir.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently spoke of a “very difficult situation” in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. As in the days before, it was the most difficult for the city of Bachmut. The military governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported one dead and three injured in the village.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense published a video on Twitter that is supposed to show the situation near Bakhmut. The clip, which features a rugged landscape, is not footage of the Battle of Verdun but shows trenches of Ukrainian infantry that have been under heavy Russian fire for months, sources said.
According to Military Governor Kyrylenko, six more civilians were found dead after Russian troops withdrew from the city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine. According to the local authorities, numerous graves had already been discovered there. According to the General Staff in Kyiv, the Ukrainian army destroyed several Russian army ammunition depots in the Zaporizhia area. Again, this could not be independently verified.
The Ukrainian military also reported ongoing fighting in the Kherson region. There, as well as in the regions of Donetsk and Mykolaiv, Russia says it has fended off an advance by Ukrainian troops. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced that the Ukrainian side had suffered significant losses. Among other things, three US M777 howitzers were hit in the Kharkiv area, said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, according to Russian agencies. Russia continued its attacks against military targets and energy supply with “precision weapons”. Konashenkov spoke of significant losses for Ukraine.
The Russian-led separatists in eastern Ukraine had also reported that the Ukrainian army had shelled the city of Donetsk. An administration building was severely damaged, Mayor Alexei Kulemsin said, according to the Russian news agency TASS. Among other things, windows were shattered and cars caught fire, it said. Kulemsin spoke of at least two injuries. “Miraculously no one died,” he was quoted as saying. This information could not be independently confirmed. The industrial city of Donetsk has been under the control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014.
Moscow-backed forces on Sunday blamed the Ukrainian army for 40 attacks on targets in the Russian-recognized “Donetsk People’s Republic” within 24 hours. One civilian was killed and four others injured. In Russia’s Belgorod region north of Ukraine, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov also blamed Ukraine for shelling. Three members of a family were wounded, Gladkow said via telegram.
