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, Deputy Presidential Chief of Staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko said by cable on Sunday. Meanwhile, Russian-led separatists in eastern Ukraine reported that the Ukrainian army had bombed the city of Donetsk.
Six people were injured in the Russian attacks on Nikopol, more than 20 homes and several power lines were damaged, the Ukrainian side said. Battlefield reports cannot be independently verified. Nikopol is located opposite the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which was recently bombed several times – on the other bank of the Dnipro River, which was formed here in a reservoir.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently spoke of a “very difficult situation” in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. As in previous days, it was the most difficult for the city of Bachmut. The military governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported on Sunday that one person was killed and three wounded in the city of Bakhmut.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry posted a video on Twitter that allegedly shows the situation near Bakhmut. The clip, which features a rugged landscape, is not footage of the Battle of Verdun but shows Ukrainian infantry trenches 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 eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman. According to local authorities, several graves had already been discovered at the site.
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 fighting in progress in the Kherson region.
Meanwhile, Russian-led separatists in eastern Ukraine reported that the Ukrainian army had bombed the city of Donetsk. An administrative building was severely damaged, Mayor Alexei Kulemsin said, according to state news agency Tass. Among other things, windows broke and cars caught fire, he said.
Kulemsin spoke of at least two wounded. “Miraculously no one died,” he was quoted as saying. The information could not be independently confirmed. The industrial city of Donetsk has been under the control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014.
On Sunday, Moscow-backed forces blamed the Ukrainian army for 40 attacks on targets in the Russian-recognized “People’s Republic of Donetsk” in 24 hours. One civilian was killed and four others were wounded.
In Russia’s Belgorod region of northern Ukraine, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov also blamed Ukraine for the bombing. Three family members were injured, Gladkow said by cable.
Meanwhile, according to British information, Russia is no longer able to keep up with ammunition production because of its approach to the war of aggression against Ukraine. “The Russian defense industry is unlikely to be able to produce advanced munitions at the rate at which they are being consumed,” the UK Ministry of Defense said in its Ukraine War Intelligence Update on Sunday.
More than 80 rocket attacks on several Ukrainian cities earlier in the week meant a further deterioration in Russia’s long-range missile stockpile, the British said. This will likely limit Russia’s ability to hit that number of targets again in the future.
About seven and a half months into the war, Russia fired more than 80 rockets into Ukraine on Monday – including in the capital Kyiv. About 20 people died and more than 100 were injured. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that attacks on lost targets would be “rescheduled”. At the same time, he emphasized that no other large-scale attacks are planned at the moment.