Attacks continue in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces continue their counteroffensive
The Ukrainian Air Force reports shooting down 26 Russian attack drones and reports "particularly fruitful" results on the frontline in recent days. The defenders say they have advanced 2 kilometres along the Berdyansk front, a town on the Azov Sea in the Zaporozhye region. On the other hand, the Russians are bringing more and more Chechens and detainees to the front, and former President Dmitry Medvedev says the war could end as soon as the Ukrainians stop receiving weapons from Western allies.
Air raids in the southern regions of Herson, Nikolaev and Odessa. Residents are urged to go to shelters. According to the Ukrainian press, it could be Russian Kalibr cruise missile attacks.
At the same time, Kremlin forces have shelled five times as many settlements in the Sumi region, the regional military administration reports. Twenty-seven explosions were recorded.
"My mother and I moved to Sumi. We have been living here for 10 years, we are refugees from Lugansk. We just feel anger," says a local woman.
The town of Marhanets in the Nikopol region was also attacked with drones.
Ukrainian forces are continuing their counteroffensive in the Melitopol and Berdiansk directions, consolidating their positions, the Ukrainian Army says in a new report. In the context, former Russian President, now Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that the Russian army is modern and heroic, despite having some problems. The official comes with new warnings, saying that the price of the Ukrainian offensive could cost the lives of 300,000 civilians living in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye power plant.
Meanwhile, officials in Russia's Kursk and Belgorod regions have accused Ukrainian forces of launching new bombings.
At the same time, the self-proclaimed authorities in the Donetsk region claim that the attacks destroyed a hospital, a school and a kindergarten in Makeevka. On the other side, Ukrainian officials said the attack destroyed a Russian army depot in Makeevka.
At the same time, a major fire broke out at the Lukhskaya Thermal Power Plant in the Russian city of Veliki Novgorod. The flames covered an area of more than 2,300 square metres. The cause of the fire is not known, but witnesses say they heard a loud bang before the fire broke out. In recent times, several oil depots and tanks or Russian businesses supplying the military have been consumed by flames.
