By The Associated Press
Russian artillery shelling within the town of Chasiv Yar killed five people on Saturday as Moscow's troops advanced within the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
The attack hit a high-rise constructing and a personal house, said the region's governor, Vadym Filaskhin. The victims were men aged between 24 and 38. He called on the last remaining residents to depart the front-line city, which had 12,000 inhabitants before the war.
“Normal life has been impossible in Khasiv Yar for more than two years,” Filaskhin wrote on social media. “Do not become a Russian target – evacuate.” Another two people were killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv region. One victim was recovered from the rubble of a house within the village of Cherkaska Lozova, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said, while a second woman succumbed to her injuries on the method to hospital.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had captured the town of Pivnichne, also in Ukraine's Donetsk region. The Associated Press couldn’t independently confirm this claim.
Russian forces are advancing ever deeper into the partially occupied eastern region, the whole conquest of which is considered one of the Kremlin's predominant goals. The Russian army is Pokrovsk in sighta vital logistics hub for Ukrainian defense within the region.
At the identical time, Ukraine sent its troops to The Russian region of Kursk in recent weeks, the biggest invasion of Russian soil since World War II. The move is partly an try and force Russia to withdraw troops from the front in Donetsk.
Elsewhere, the variety of injured continued to rise following a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday.
Six people were killed, including a 14-year-old girl, when glide bombs hit five locations in the town, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said. In a social media post on Saturday, he wrote that the variety of injured had risen to 96 from 47.
Syniehubov also confirmed that the 12-story apartment block that was hit by a bomb attack that set the constructing on fire and trapped no less than one person on considered one of the upper floors could be partially demolished.
Ukrainian government officials had previously identified that the attacks on Kharkiv were further evidence that Western partners should lift their restrictions on the targets that the Ukrainian military can reach with donated weapons.
In an interview with CNN on Friday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said Kyiv had submitted an inventory of potential long-range targets in Russia to Washington for approval. “I hope we have been heard,” he said.
He also denied speculation that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine's decision to dismiss the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force on Friday was directly related to the destruction of an F-16 fighter jet that Ukraine had received from its Western partners 4 days earlier.
The order to dismiss Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk was published on the president's website a couple of minutes before a speech through which Zelensky stressed the necessity to “take care of all our soldiers.”
The variety of injured also continued to rise within the Russian border region of Belgorod. Five people were killed by Ukrainian artillery fire on Friday, said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. On Sunday, he said 46 people were injured, 37 of whom were in hospital, including seven children. Gladkov also wrote on social media that two others had been injured by Ukrainian artillery fire across the region.
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