The Ukrainian government reports another overnight wave of attacks in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa. One person died and 18 others were injured, including four children. “Odessa: another night attack by the monsters”, says Oleh Kipergovernor of the Odessa region in southern Ukraine on the Telegram messaging app.
“Unfortunately, we have a civilian who has been killed.” The largest Orthodox church in the city, consecrated in 1809 Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedralwas seriously damaged in the attacks, according to the RBC-Ukraine news agency.
Several dead in the rest of the country
According to government sources, several people were killed and injured by Russian shelling in other parts of the country on Monday. In the city kupyansk In the Kharkiv region, in the east of the country, a resident was killed by a Russian bombing on Saturday, and another person was in the bombing of the place. Dvorichna dead and one wounded in the Kupyansk area.
The military administration of the region sumy According to reports in the northeast of the country, several towns were bombed with artillery or helicopters on Saturday. According to preliminary findings, at least one person was killed and four others were injured in the city of Krasnopil, it said.
Several homes and a gas line were also damaged. In another community in the region, two people were injured in a drone attack. The information could not be independently verified.
Attacks in the east could be a new Russian offensive
Last week, the Ukrainian military said the Russian army had launched an offensive in the Kupyansk area of the Kharkiv region in order to break through Ukrainian lines. In the Sumy region, the Ukrainian army ordered the population of the region’s border districts to flee at the end of June due to constant Russian bombing.
Russia has been waging a war of aggression against the neighboring country for nearly 17 months. A Ukrainian counter-offensive is underway. Especially in the southern region of Zaporizhia and the eastern region of Donetsk, Ukrainian units are trying to break through the Russian defense lines.