Russian attacks across eastern Ukraine killed at least 11 people Saturday, while rescuers in the city of Dnipro dug through rubble after a Russian strike ripped through a nine-story residential building, leaving one dead, officials said.
The attacks came as Russia continues to stretch out Ukrainian forces in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. Moscow has stepped up airstrikes in a bid to drain Ukraine’s resources, often targeting energy facilities and other vital infrastructure.
The shelling of the front-line village of Niu-York in the Donetsk region also wounded five people, Gov. Vadym Filashkin said. He said that Russian forces had shelled populated areas 13 times over the past 24 hours.
A further seven people were killed Saturday afternoon in Russian shelling on the town of Vilniansk, including two children, Gov. Ivan Fedorov said. Ten other people were wounded, while infrastructure was also damaged, he wrote on social media.
Meanwhile, in Dnipro, at least one person died and 12 were wounded, including a 7-month-old girl, after a Russian strike destroyed the top four floors of the apartment building on Friday evening, regional head Serhii Lysak said. Rescuers confirmed that several residents remained missing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Dnipro attack was a reminder to Ukraine’s allies that the country needed more air defense systems. The Ukrainian air force said Saturday that it had downed 10 Russian drones overnight.
“This is why we constantly remind all of our partners: only a sufficient amount of high-quality air defense systems, only a sufficient amount of determination from the world at large can stop Russian terror,” he said.
Russian officials also reported Ukrainian attacks, with a drone strike killing five people in Russia’s Kursk region, local officials said Saturday.
A Ukrainian drone strike killed at least five people in Russia’s Kursk region, local officials said Saturday. Two children were among the victims of the attack in the village of Gorodishche on the Russian-Ukrainian border, Gov. Alexey Smirnov said on social media.
In its morning statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said that six Ukrainian drones had been shot down overnight over the country’s Tver, Bryansk and Belgorod regions, as well as over the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. It didn't give information on the reported strike in the Kursk region. The Ukrainian government also responded Saturday to a statement from the Belarusian military saying it had increased its forces along Ukraine’s northern border in response to what it described as security threats.
The announcement came after Belarus’ border agency claimed its troops downed a Ukrainian drone that had flown across the border to gather intelligence.
Kyiv denied the accusations, which it described as Russian propaganda.
“The Russians’ task is simple — to draw more of our forces (to the Belarusian border), Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation said in a statement. “Any information about our activity in the border area is a lie.”
Belarus’ authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has close ties with Russia and allowed Moscow to use his country’s territory to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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26 Comments
TaiwanIsNotChina
Just Russia taking care of Russian speakers.
2020hindsights
There are rumours that Ukraine have hit an S-500 top of the range air defence system stationed in Crimea. Might explain Putin's hissy fit a few days ago, where he threatened escalation against the US.
ok1517
Another 12 Ukrainians murdered by Russia!
Russia under Putain's dictatorship is a terrorist state!
Ukraine prevails!
Ramsey's Kitchen
There are rumours that Ukraine have hit an S-500 top of the range air defence system stationed in Crimea.
Rumours huh....cool, no need to worry about any proof since it's coming from Zelensky camp right?. Sounds legit.
Might explain Putin's hissy fit a few days ago, where he threatened escalation against the US.
Yeah except Kremlin threatened retaliation immediately after the ATACMS killed and wounded over 150 civilians on the beach and explicitly said so, so there is that.
PTownsend
Of course the Russian Federation, aka the Potemkin nation, issues state propaganda, and the Kremlin have lots of useful idiots on all forms of media, social and corporate, to parrot the Kremlin's messages, many use methods from the Soviet Era such as ';whatabout' and 'that would be...' among others and resort to pushing blatant lies and conspiracy theories and demonizing opposition groups plus those they consider 'others' to keep things even more divided, angrier and muddier, not surprising their leaders do similar things. George f all you've got is 'the left say so' save it for your local gun club newsletter, or a Sinclair broadcasting 'news' site, maybe 8Chan.
Kuku
Today in the Kursk region Ukraine bombed several residential buildings. There are no military targets near the houses. This was a targeted terrorist act against civilians. A family of four died, including two children aged 4 and 6 years old. And the neighbor , a young man of 21 years old. Five civilians were injured.
The UAF shot a group of refugees from Toretsk towards Russian territory. At least 7 civilians killed by Ukrainians.
2020hindsights
Ramsey's Kitchen
There are rumours that Ukraine have hit an S-500 top of the range air defence system stationed in Crimea.
No, it's coming out of US military contractor circles.
Might explain Putin's hissy fit a few days ago, where he threatened escalation against the US.
It did so because Russian air defence knocked the missile away from its target toward the beach.
The Russians didn't sound any air raid alarms. If they did, those people could have gone to shelter, so there's that.
But the point is, Putin doesn't care about civilians in Crimea.
He does care about a $2.5 billion air defence system.
Kuku
Give links, let's study
Ramsey's Kitchen
*There are rumours that Ukraine have hit an S-500 top of the range air defence system stationed in Crimea.....R*umours huh....cool, no need to worry about any proof since it's coming from Zelensky camp right?. Sounds legit.,......
No, it's coming out of US military contractor circles.
Ok cool let's see the proof then, video or otherwise so then that will settle it. UA side always provides evidence when it hits high value targets as it's a PR win so no doubt they'll have it in this case right? Otherwise as NAFO says - if there are no links , it didn't happen.
It did so because Russian air defence knocked the missile away from its target toward the beach.
I tend to agree with you on that but they were still ATACMS with strike coordinates provided by US military apparently and it doesn't change the casualties fact.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The number of displaced is already greater than the Iraq War. We will never know what Putin's true kill count is until the mass graves are uncovered, so shortly after his empire collapses on his death.
FizzBit
PTownsend, while I'm guessing from the heart, your rant about Russia is very Potemkin as well. In the end, without NATO expansion around Russia, and unofficial NATO expansion into Ukraine, this war/invasion would have never happened.
JJE
My understanding is that Zelensky cannot mobilize enough forces to defend the crumbling positions on the main line of contact, let alone effectively control the Donbass, which he never has and clearly never will.
Wonder how that debate went down in Kyiv.
2020hindsights
Kuku
There are rumours that Ukraine have hit an S-500 top of the range air defence system stationed in Crimea.
https://www.newsweek.com/atacms-russia-s-500-prometheus-attack-1918798
TaiwanIsNotChina
Still Putin's War. Murmurings about intelligence bases are not a justification for war.
JJE
Ok. So, the basis of the assertion is from a Ukrainian journalist on Telegram, reported by Newsweek, in which it also reports it could not independently verify it. No video or photos or even a where and when. Looks a bit flimsy.
2020hindsights
FizzBit
Incorrect. NATO has nothing to do with this war.
In the end, without Putin's imperialism, this war would have never happened.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Sounds about as well supported as the hundreds of patriot systems and HIMARS destructions you report.
2020hindsights
JJE
And highly embarrassing.
If it was just the Ukrainian rumour mill, I wouldn't have brought it up. But US military contractors are talking about it.
FizzBit
So it's clear you know very little how Ukraine and its military was and is integrated with NATO, oh and yeah, waaaay before 2014.
"Murmurings about intelligence bases" LOL not too sharp eh?
JJE
RMoD posted footage of an Iskander-M missile strike on a M270 MLRS attempting to hide in a warehouse just yesterday.
Footage circulating of strike by same system on a train in Zaporizhzhia region that took place yesterday.
When it's on candid camera, you can bank on it. Think about it; a certain someone is begging for more of the above-mentioned systems. Not hard to extrapolate why.
2020hindsights
FizzBit
Murmurings about intelligence bases
And completely irrelevant.
PTownsend
@ kuku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Fighto!
More targeted attacks on children to add to the list of war crimes committed by the fascist Russians.
JJE
Source?
TaiwanIsNotChina
The Russian military may be pathetic but Javelins and Training are not a threat to Russia. Also now you are saying Ukraine was headed to war before 2014? Why not just say Russia should have invaded Ukraine in 1991?
Kuku
And? I know very well what it is Potemkin Village. What you mean by Potemkin nation? U want to say that you invented the expression Potemkin States of America? It sounds great!