LIVE – War in Ukraine: the army says it has pushed the Russians back “from 3 to 8 km” deep near the Dnieper

Five people were injured during a bombing on Kherson, according to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, including a three-year-old girl. “All of them were injured by shrapnel,” Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram. “The child and grandmother were walking in the yard. Enemy artillery hit them near the entrance.”

If kyiv’s advance on the Dnieper were to be confirmed, it would be the biggest push by the Ukrainian army against the Russians in several months. The last major success since the launch of the counter-offensive last June was the recapture of the village of Robotyné in August, in the Zaporizhia region.

Kiev hoped that this reconquest would allow it to break through the Russian lines and liberate the occupied areas, but the Ukrainian army did not succeed, faced with the firepower and solid Russian defense lines. Taking positions in depth on the left bank of the Dnieper could allow a larger assault in the south. But for this, Ukraine must succeed in deploying a large number of men, vehicles and equipment in this difficult to access, sandy and marshy area.

A woman tried to set fire to a military enlistment center in the Kaliningrad region, as shown in this video broadcast by the Russian press. According to the Russian media Mash, the events took place on Saturday afternoon, after this woman threw a Molotov cocktail at the establishment. Witnesses then “frightened her by screaming”. “She is currently wanted by the police,” specifies the Russian media.

Since the beginning of the invasion in Ukraine, around 100 Russian army registration and enlistment offices, administrative buildings and offices of the security forces have been attacked.

Ukrainian air defense shot down fifteen of the twenty drones launched into the country overnight, according to the General Staff. At least one infrastructure was hit by one of these Iranian-made “Shaded” explosive drones.

The Ukrainian army claims to have pushed the Russians back “three to eight km” deep on the bank of the Dnieper occupied by the Moscow army. “The preliminary figures vary depending on the specificities, geography and topology of the left bank,” said an army spokesperson, Natalia Goumeniouk, on Ukrainian television. However, she did not indicate whether Ukrainian forces were in complete control of this area or whether the Russian army had withdrawn.

This is the first numerical estimate of the advance of kyiv’s troops in this area after months of disappointing counter-offensive. Natalia Goumeniouk did not, however, indicate whether Ukrainian forces completely controlled this area of ​​the Kherson region or whether the Russian army had withdrawn in the face of attacks by Kiev troops. “The enemy continues its artillery fire on the right bank,” she detailed, estimating the number of Russian soldiers present in this area at “several tens of thousands”. “We have a lot of work to do.”

The Russian capital was also targeted by enemy drone attacks last night. “An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using a drone against installations on the territory of the Russian Federation has been foiled,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The drone in question was “destroyed by air defense equipment”, according to the ministry’s account. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, later indicated on Telegram that this foiled attack “caused no damage or victims”. “Emergency services are working on the site” where “the debris” of the machine fell, he said.

Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Moscow were particularly frequent in the spring, ahead of and at the start of kyiv’s counter-offensive that began in June, but they have become very rare in recent weeks.

While kyiv was the target of drone attacks for the second time in a row, Volodymyr Zelensky issues a warning on social networks. On Saturday evening, Ukraine’s president said he expected Russia to increase its attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, aiming to cripple the country’s heating and electricity supplies in the middle of winter. “The closer we get to winter, the more the Russians will try to make their strikes more powerful,” he warned in his daily address, calling on his army to be “100% effective, despite all the difficulties, despite the fatigue”.

For the second night in a row, kyiv was targeted by a drone attack. More precisely by a barrage of Iranian-made “Shaded” explosive drones, launched by the Russian army according to information from local authorities. “For the second day in a row, the enemy is attacking the capital with drones,” lamented on Telegram the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Sergiï Popko, who reported an “intensification” of attacks on Kiev. According to his explanations, the Russian drones “were launched in several groups and attacked kyiv in waves, from different directions.” In total, “15 of the 20 enemy drones were destroyed,” the Ukrainian general staff said in a separate statement. No casualties or critical destruction were recorded, according to the head of the Ukrainian administration.

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Doctors who operate in makeshift hospitals, without much means. And residents of Avdiivka injured and forced to leave their hometown. The Donetsk Oblast has been under constant threat from the Russians since October 10, when Moscow began the encirclement near the border.

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