Ukrainian officials reported at least 17 more civilian deaths. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave “orders to further intensify the actions of units in all operational areas in order to exclude the possibility of the Kiev regime launching massive rocket and artillery attacks on civilian infrastructure and settlement residents in the Donbass and in other areas. “, his ministry said on Saturday. Russia’s military campaign has focused on eastern Donbas, but new attacks have hit areas in the north and south as well. Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has seen particularly heavy shelling in recent days, with Ukrainian officials and local commanders expressing fears of a second full-scale Russian attack on the northern city. A teacher walks near a school destroyed by a military attack in Chuhuiv, in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, on Saturday. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) At least three civilians were killed and three wounded Saturday in a pre-dawn Russian rocket attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Chuhuiv, which is near Kharkiv and just 120 kilometers from the Russian border, a regional police chief said. Serhiy Bolvinov, deputy head of the Kharkiv regional police force, said the rockets partially destroyed a two-story apartment building. “Four Russian rockets, believed to have been fired from around (the Russian city of) Belgorod at night, around 3:30 a.m., hit a residential building, a school and administrative buildings,” Bolvinov wrote on Facebook. He said the bodies of the three dead civilians were found under the rubble. In the neighboring Sumy region, one civilian was killed and at least seven others were wounded when Russians opened fire with mortars and artillery on three towns and villages not far from the Russian border, regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky said Saturday on Telegram. In the war-torn eastern region of Donetsk, seven civilians were killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours in attacks on towns, its governor said on Saturday. Later in the day, on the outskirts of Pokrovsk, a city in the Donetsk region, a woman said a neighbor had been killed by a rocket attack on Saturday afternoon. Tetiana Pashko said she suffered a cut on her leg and one of her family’s dogs was killed. In the neighboring Luhansk region, however, Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian attack overnight on a strategic eastern highway, Governor Serhiy Haidai said, adding that Russia had been trying to seize the main road between the cities of Lysychansk and Bakhmut for more than two months. . “They still can’t control many kilometers of this road,” Haidai wrote in a Telegram post. WATCHES | What happened in week 21 of Russia’s attack on Ukraine:
What happened in week 21 of Russia’s attack on Ukraine
Russian missiles hit towns in central and southwestern Ukraine far from the front lines of the conflict, and Ukraine said Canada’s decision to return turbines used in a pipeline to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany would be seen as a sign of weakness by Moscow . Here’s a recap of the war in Ukraine from July 9 to July 15. Luhansk and Donetsk regions make up the Donbass, an eastern industrial region that fueled Ukraine’s economy and has been largely occupied by Russian and separatist forces. In southern Ukraine, two people were wounded by Russian shelling in the town of Bastanka, northeast of the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, according to regional governor Vitaly Kim. He said Mykolaiv itself came under new Russian fire before dawn on Saturday. On Friday, he released video of what he said was a Russian missile attack on the city’s two largest universities and denounced Russia as a “terrorist state.” Smoke rises from a fire following a missile attack in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Saturday. (Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP/Getty Images) In Odessa, a Black Sea port city, a Russian missile struck a warehouse, engulfing it in flames and sending a plume of black smoke, but no injuries were reported, local officials said. Two people were killed and a woman was hospitalized after a Russian rocket attack on the city of Nikopoli, on the eastern side of the river, emergency services said. Dnipro Governor Valentin Reznichenko said a five-story apartment building, a school and a vocational school building were damaged. The Ukrainian air force said Russian forces fired six more cruise missiles Saturday from strategic bombers into the Caspian Sea, and two hit a farm in the Cherkasy region along the Dnieper River. No one was injured, but farm equipment was destroyed and some cattle were killed, regional governor Ihor Taburets said. The Ukrainian air force said the other four missiles were intercepted.
