Moscow claims the capture of four new localities on Sunday in northeastern Ukraine.“All areas” bordering the Kharkiv region are “under Russian fire,” according to the local governor.Follow the latest information.
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The death toll from the Ukrainian shooting increases in Russia. At least 20 people were injured in the partial collapse of a building in Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, after a strike by Kiev’s army, according to emergency services cited by the state news agency.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the Ukrainian army had attacked “residential areas of the city of Belgorod” late in the morning. It was the fall of one of the Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles, intercepted by Russian anti-aircraft defense, which “damaged” the building, according to this source.
UKRAINIAN SHOOTING IN RUSSIA
The death toll from the Ukrainian shooting increases in Russia. At least 17 people were injured on Sunday in the partial collapse of a building in Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, after a strike by the Kiev army, announced Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.
RUSSIAN INCURSIONS IN VOLCHANSK
According to our information, Russian incursions took place in the north of Volchansk, a town of 20,000 inhabitants located about sixty kilometers northeast of Kharkiv. Military sources tell us that Ukrainian forces managed to repel them, without further details at this stage.
RUSSIAN ADVANCES
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed the capture of four new localities in the Kharkiv region, in the border area of northeastern Ukraine, two days after the launch of a ground assault by its troops in this area.
“Units of the Northern Group of Troops advanced deep into enemy defenses and liberated the settlements of Gatishche, Krasnoye, Morokhovets and Oleinikovo in the Kharkiv region.“, he said in a statement. On Saturday, the Russian army claimed to have conquered six Ukrainian villages, including five in the Kharkiv region.
UKRAINIAN SHOOTING IN BELGOROD
At least seven people were injured on Sunday in the partial collapse of a building in Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, after a strike by kyiv’s army, Russian emergency services said. “The evacuation of residents is underway” said a representative of the emergency services, quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency.
According to the Interfax news agency, “more than 10 people” could be found in total under the rubble. A few minutes earlier, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod region, regularly targeted by Ukrainian strikes, had broadcast on Telegram a video showing an entire section of a building collapsed on him -even, leaving a gaping hole in the building.
DRONE IN RUSSIA
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire on the site of the Volgograd refinery in southern Russia overnight from Saturday to Sunday, lamented the governor of the eponymous region, Andreï Botcharov.
“On the night of May 12, air defense and electronic warfare forces repelled a drone attack on the territory of the Volgograd region, he said on Telegram. The consequences of the fall of a drone followed by a detonation caused a fire at the site of the Volgograd oil refinery.“The manager clarified that”the fire was extinguished“since and that”there were no victims“.
EVACUATIONS
More than 4,000 people have already been evacuated in the Kharkiv region, according to the authorities. “In total, 4,073 people were evacuateds,” Governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media, a day after Russian forces claimed the capture of five villages in the region.
RUSSIAN ADVANCES
The Russians are advancing into eastern Ukraine. They are now only 40 kilometers from the large city of Kharkiv. Details in this LCI topic.
Kharkiv: the Russians 40 km from the citySource : TF1 Info
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
– Russia claims the capture of six villages: Moscow claimed several advances in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, where hundreds of people were evacuated from areas close to the Russian border. Russian forces, pushed back almost two years ago from this area of northeastern Ukraine, began an offensive in the region on Friday against the Ukrainian army, short of recruits and weapons.
Latest development: the Russian Defense Ministry said its troops had “released” the Ukrainian villages of Borisivka, Ogirtseve, Pletenivka, Pylna and Strilecha in the Kharkiv region, near the border with Russia, as well as the village of Keramik in the Donetsk region, further south.
– Zelensky says that Ukraine “led counterattacks“: in his daily evening message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that Ukrainian troops “led counterattacks“in the Kharkiv region.”Our number one task now is to disrupt the offensive plans of the Russians, he detailed. I thank each of our brigades, which courageously defends its positions, repels the assaults and destroys“Russian positions.”Every air defense system, every anti-missile system is literally what saves lives“, he also added.
– Russian and Ukrainian bombings: Two men aged 50 and 48 were killed and two others injured by a Russian aerial bomb attack in Vovchansk, near the border, the governor of Kharkiv said. At the same time, on Saturday, authorities installed by Moscow in the Lugansk region, occupied by Russia in eastern Ukraine, announced the death of three people in a Ukrainian attack, carried out with American-made missiles , on an oil depot.
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On Saturday May 10, Russia claimed the capture of six villages in eastern Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops had “released” the Ukrainian villages of Borisivka, Ogirtseve, Pletenivka, Pylna and Strilecha in the Kharkiv region, near the border with Russia, as well as the village of Keramik in the Donetsk region, further south.
On the Ukrainian side, “1775 people were evacuated”, indicated the governor of the region, Oleg Synegoubov, adding that Russia had carried out artillery and mortar fire on 30 localities in the area in the last 24 hours. He assured that there was no “no threat of a ground operation” Russian to the city of Kharkiv, the second largest in the country.
In his evening address, President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that Ukrainian troops “led counterattacks” in the Kharkiv region. “Our number one task now is to disrupt the offensive plans of the Russians”did he declare.
On Saturday, authorities installed by Moscow in the Lugansk region, occupied by Russia in eastern Ukraine, announced the death of three people in a Ukrainian attack, carried out with American-made missiles, on an oil depot . The governor, Leonid Pasechnik, said the strike had “enveloped the oil depot in flames and damaged surrounding homes”. “The death toll stands at three and eight other people are hospitalized”he said on social networks.
Three people also died and nine were injured in a Ukrainian strike on a restaurant in Donetsk, a city occupied by Moscow in the eponymous Ukrainian region, according to the occupation authorities. In Russia, media reported two people killed by Ukrainian strikes in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.