Heavy bombing in at least a dozen cities. The focus is on Kherson, which is mostly controlled by Russian forces, but Ukrainian troops are steadily recapturing territory.
Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts by Russian forces to advance on towns in the eastern Donetsk region, which has become the focus of the nearly six-month-old war, but added that they had repelled many of the attacks.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces also reported Russian shelling of at least a dozen towns on the southern front – particularly in the Kherson region, which is mostly controlled by Russian forces but where Ukrainian troops are steadily recapturing territory.
Attention has focused on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine amid fears of a disaster due to fresh shelling in recent days, blamed on each other by Russia and Ukraine.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a demilitarized zone and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russian soldiers firing at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant or using it as a base to fire from it they will become “special targets” of Ukrainian forces.
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant dominates the southern bank of a large man-made lake on the Dnieper River. Ukrainian forces control the towns on the opposite bank and are shelled from the Russian-controlled side.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which wants to inspect the station, has warned of a nuclear disaster if the fighting does not stop. Nuclear experts fear the fighting could damage spent nuclear fuel storage facilities or reactors.
Zelensky stated that Ukraine has many times proposed to the Russian leadership various schemes for peace talks, but no progress has been made.
“This is how we must defend ourselves, we must respond to every form of terrorism, every shelling – the heavy shelling that doesn’t stop for a single day,” he said late Sunday night in videotaped remarks.
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