Moscow: “Ukrainians blew up an ammonia pipeline” ANSA news agency

A “Group of Ukrainian Saboteurs” In the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, the pipeline carrying ammonia from Russia to the Ukrainian port of Odessa exploded, causing injury to the population and spilling ammonia into the environment. This was announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense on its Telegram channel. According to the ministry, the attack happened near the village of Masyutovka.

According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, heavy Ukrainian bombing raids on Russia’s Belgorod region continue on his Telegram channel. The hardest hit area is the Shebekino district, where 460 artillery shells and 26 drone-dropped bombs fell in the last 24 hours. The Russian governor Gladkov also accuses the Ukrainian armed forces of attacking the village of Grafovka with Grad missile systems, but claims that there will be no casualties, the newspaper Kommersant reports, citing the politician’s Telegram channel.

In the meantime, the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Alexander Syrsky, said that his troops are advancing along Bakhmut’s flanks. “Bakhmut Direction. The defense forces continue to advance on the flanks, the enemy is losing ground near Bakhmut,” writes Syrsky on his Telegram channel, also quoted by Ukrainska Pravda, attaching a video showing Ukrainian soldiers in the bush advance and shots are heard.

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