Kyiv (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Ukraine’s authorities said Russian shelling overnight killed one person and wounded two more in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk and the Kremlin attacked Ukraine with 79 drones.
City Mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko noted,
Kramatorsk was subjected to hostile shelling – residential district, a boy born in 2006 was killed.
Goncharenko also said that two people, a man and a woman, were also wounded.
Ukraine air force said its air defence units downed 63 of the 79 Russian drones that struck overnight in several Ukrainian regions. The governor of the broader Zaporizhzhia region said a Russian drone attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia in southwestern Ukraine wounded one civilian.
Both countries deny hitting civilians in their attacks on each other in the fighting that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion on Ukraine three years ago. But thousands of civilians have perished in the dispute, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
What military gains has Russia made in Eastern Ukraine?
Russian soldiers have sharply increased their attacks in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s military stated. NATO official indicated Moscow would increase the pace and power of its assaults, with talks to end the war coming.
The major attacks were focused near the imperilled logistics junction of Pokrovsk, Kyiv expressed.
Moscow’s troops progressed steadily in the east for much of the second half of 2024, reporting the capture of village after village. However, the intensity of the war dropped in January this year, according to Ukrainian military data. The Russian military has taken a swathe of territory to the south of Pokrovsk. They are now moving upwards to its southwest, risking a main supply route into the outpost, the capture of which could open up more lines of aggression for Russia.
Despite losses, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy noted a “good result” in the east and a military spokesman expressed Kyiv’s forces had recaptured the village of Pishchane, approximately 5 km to Pokrovsk’s south.
It isn’t so much the result of something collapsing for the Russians or some kind of magical weapon being delivered to Ukraine, no. Certain organizational actions were taken to help Ukrainians act more effectively,
Viktor Trehubov, a military spokesman said.
