The Russian Defence Ministry has confirmed the strikes on the cities of Chasiv Yar (Ukraine’s Donetsk region) and Kharkiv in its daily bulletin published on the ministry’s Telegram channel.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, “in the area of Chasiv Yar, a temporary deployment site of the 118th territorial defence brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed.” The ministry added that “300 nationalists were eliminated” as a result of the strike.
Yesterday, Ukraine reported that a Russian missile had struck a residential building in Chasiv Yar. As a result of the attack, two sections of an apartment block were destroyed, with at least 34 people buried under the rubble. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports that 18 civilians were killed and 22 are still buried under the rubble.
Photo: the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for the Donetsk region
The Russian Defence Ministry also confirmed the strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv. According to the ministry, Russian missiles had hit “deployment sites of nationalist and foreign mercenary battalions, eliminating about 250 militants and up to 25 units of armoured and automotive equipment.”
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry earlier reported that an entire section of a six-storey apartment building had been destroyed in an overnight attack on Kharkiv. Another missile hit a school. Later, governor of the Kharkiv region Oleg Synegubov reported that three civilians had been killed in the attack, and at least 31 had been injured.
Photo: Ukraine's Interior Ministry
“High-precision long-range sea-launched Kalibr missiles destroyed depots storing ammunition for the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers delivered to Ukraine by the US, M777 howitzers and 2S7 Pion self-propelled artillery in the area of the Radushne settlement in Dnipropetrovsk region,” the Russian Defence Ministry claims.
Ukraine has not reported an attack on the settlement of Radushne. According to Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko, the settlements of Novosemenivka and Maryanske, located about 28 miles away from Radushne were shelled by the Russian forces.
According to the UN, a total of 4,731 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the war, and 5,900 have been injured. A total of 1,812 men, 1,225 women, 134 girls and 155 boys were killed. It was impossible to verify the sex of the remaining 41 deceased children and 1,364 adults.
