Russian attacks in Ukraine claim at least two dead and eight injured SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP
Russian attacks in Ukraine claim at least two dead and eight woundedSERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP
Published on 06/25/2023, 10:13 am
Two people were killed and at least eight injured in attacks by the Russian army on Saturday and Sunday, according to Ukrainian authorities.
According to Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the regional military administration, a resident of the town of Vuhledar in eastern Dsk has died. Two others were injured.
In Kherson, a 44yearold man was killed and a woman was trapped under the rubble of a fivestory building after Russian bombing damaged houses and buildings in the region, said the region’s military administration chief Oleksandr Prokudin.
In Charvin, an explosion in the village of Pivdenne injured a sevenyearold child who was hospitalized.
In the southern Zaporizhia region, two elderly people were injured, according to Yuriy Malashko, head of the region’s military administration.
In Nikopol, also in the south of the country, a 47yearold man was injured by several shrapnel after being fired upon by the Russian army. The attack also damaged three private homes, a gas line and a power line, causing power outages in communities in the neighboring parish of Marhs.
Remember the latest events
This Friday, the 23rd, the head of the paramilitary Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering a bomb attack on Wagner group bases at the rear of the front in Ukraine, during which a “ large number of people” were killed “by mercenaries.
Soon after, Prigozhin vowed to “contain” the Moscow military command, recalled that he had “25,000” fighters at his disposal, and opened the doors to “anyone who wants” to join his troops to “put an end to the unrest “.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday (24) that the Wagner group mutiny was a testament to the “fragility” of a Russia steeped in “evil and chaos”.
“Russia’s fragility is evident. Total fragility,” Zelenskyy said on social media, assessing it as “obvious that Ukraine is capable of protecting Europe from contagion from Russian evil and chaos.”