A Russian bombardment on the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region, in the east of the country and one of those that make up Donbas, left seven dead and nine wounded, reported the Ukrainian governor of the region, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
The attack took place in the central market of that city and in a morning hour with a large influx of citizens, said the head of the regional military command, Vitaly Barabash. According to Ukrainian regional sources, in addition to causing deaths and injuries, the Grad missiles used for the attack damaged multi-storey buildings.
During the night the Russians bombed Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Novomikhailivka and carried out two air strikes on Bakhmut, in the same region as Donetsk.
Russia has continued its offensive on various regions of Ukraine in recent hours. The onslaught against the city of Zaporizhia and its surroundings continues, on the other hand, after attacks on 22 settlements were recorded yesterday, although without causing fatalities.
The Sumi region was subjected to thirteen bombardments by the Russian army overnight. In the morning, the communes of Seredyno-Budska and Myropillska were subjected to self-propelled artillery attacks, twelve in the first case and three in the second.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian troops bombarded the Nikopol district throughout the night with Grad missiles and heavy artillery. Three people were seriously injured in Nikopol, including a six-year-old girl. More than thirty houses and residential buildings, two kindergartens, a school, two companies, shops, several gas pipelines and power lines were damaged in the city.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops shelled settlements near the line of contact and the border with Russia in Kupyansk, Kharkiv and Chuhuiv districts, with no casualties or damage reported so far. Demining and restoration of critical infrastructure damaged by the Russians are underway in the liberated territory of the region.
In the Luhansk region, Ukrainian aviation carried out fifteen attacks, thirteen against areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment and two against Russian anti-aircraft defense systems. The missiles and artillery of the Ukrainian forces hit twelve command posts, 17 areas of concentration of men, weapons and military equipment, four ammunition depots and more than twenty installations of importance to the Russian forces. In response, Russian troops shelled Ukrainian positions on the line of contact fifteen times with artillery. There were no air or missile attacks.
The Mykolaiv region was also shelled overnight, with no deaths or injuries reported so far. The Ukrainian air defense forces shot down nine Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in this region this morning, and yesterday eight Kalibr, J-101 cruise missiles and an unmanned tactical operational aircraft.
Meanwhile, fighting continues in the Kherson region and Russian troops continue to bombard Ukrainian positions to contain a counteroffensive along the entire line of contact. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian armed forces have liberated five other settlements in the Beryslav district: Novovasylivka, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamyanka, Tryfonivka and Chervone.
New attacks against energy infrastructure in the center of the country were also reported from Kyiv, which adds up to a third consecutive day of bombings against critical infrastructure.
