Three people were killed by mortar fire at one of the villages, while the fourth was killed in shelling of a second community, according to authorities in the Sumy region, who say Russian attacks are practically daily.
Russian shelling in northern Ukraine killed four people in two villages in Russia’s neighboring Sumy region, while a woman was killed in a fresh Russian attack in eastern Ukraine on the fortress town of Avdiivka, much of which has now been reduced to rubble. , according to announcements by local authorities.
Three people were killed by mortar fire at one of the villages, while the fourth was killed in shelling of a second community, according to authorities in the Sumy region, who say Russian attacks are practically daily.
In Avdiivka, near the front line, a woman was killed yesterday afternoon in Russian shelling, Ukrainian state-run Suspilne network reported.
The city was briefly under the control of pro-Russian separatists in 2014, but was recaptured by the Ukrainian army, which turned it into a fortress. It remains in Ukrainian hands, despite Russian operations to seize it since mid-October. Almost no buildings are intact in Avdiivka.
The general staff in Kiev assured yesterday that 13 Russian attacks on Avdiivka were repelled in 24 hours.
Ukrainian officials say Russian troop activity is intensifying at various points along a vast front of more than 1,000 kilometers in eastern and southern Ukraine.
On the other hand, the head of the Moscow-appointed leadership of the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, announced via Telegram yesterday that at least three people were killed and three others wounded in a Ukrainian shelling with Soviet-made Grand rockets in the capital city of the same name. of Danbas (eastern Ukraine). He added that two apartment buildings and at least three political infrastructures were damaged.
The town, about twenty kilometers from the front line, is frequently shelled by the Ukrainian army. On January 21, a bombing in a market in the city killed 27 people and injured 25 others, one of the heaviest tolls since the outbreak of war in February 2022. On New Year’s Eve, four people were killed and thirteen others were injured in the city, including journalists, according to authorities in the region Moscow says it has annexed, which the international community does not recognize.
On Russian soil, a woman was injured yesterday when Ukrainian artillery shells hit houses near the border, Belgorod Governor Vychislav Gladkov said via Telegram.
Source :Skai
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