Russia's military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Saturday its forces had taken control of Pisky, a village on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk, the provincial capital that pro-Moscow separatists have claimed since 2014.
“The enemy is burning the ground at the entrances to the Luhansk region because it cannot overcome these few kilometers," Haidai said."It is difficult to count how many thousands of shells this territory of the free Luhansk region has withstood over the past month and a half.” Nikopol has undergone daily bombardment for most of the past week, and a volley of shells killed three people and damaged 40 apartment buildings on Thursday, he said.
“Obviously, it will be used for yet another provocation to accuse the armed forces of Ukraine,” the directorate said, without elaborating. They said Russian shelling on Friday night killed one woman and injured two other civilians in the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is a straight distance of about 53 kilometers from the plant. Ukraine's southern Mykolayiv region also said a woman died there in shelling.
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly mentioned a planned counter-offensive to retake Russian-occupied parts of the country’s south. They urged residents not to post information on social media about military actions related to it and cautioned that any related announcements might come with a time lag.
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