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 bombardment of civilian infrastructure and settlement residents in 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 that a second full-scale Russian assault on the northern city may be imminent. At the same time, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians not to give in to Russia’s attempts to scare them with warnings of horrific missile attacks to come, which he said were aimed at dividing Ukrainian society. “Sometimes, information weapons can do more than regular weapons,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation. “It is clear that no Russian missile or artillery will be able to break our unity or lead us off our path” to a democratic, independent Ukraine, he said. “And it is also clear that the unity of Ukraine cannot be broken by lies or intimidation, forgeries or conspiracy theories.” In the Kharkiv region, at least three civilians were killed and three others wounded Saturday in a pre-dawn Russian strike in the city of Chuhuiv, which is just 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the Russian border, police said. Serhiy Bolvinov, the deputy police chief of the Kharkiv region, said four rockets possibly fired from the Russian city of Belgorod hit an apartment building, a school and administrative buildings at about 3:30 a.m. Writing on Facebook, he said that the three bodies were found under the rubble. Lyudmila Krekshina, who lives in the apartment building that was hit, said a husband and an elderly man who lived on the ground floor were killed. Another resident said she was lucky to survive. “I was going to run and hide in the bathroom. I didn’t make it and that saved me,” said Valentina Busuyeva. Pointing to her damaged apartment, she said: “There’s the bathroom — explosion. Kitchen – half a room. And I survived because I stayed put.” In neighboring Sumy region, one civilian was killed and at least seven wounded when Russians opened fire with mortars and artillery on three towns and villages not far from the Russian border, regional governor Dmytro Zhivitsky said on Saturday. In the war-torn eastern region of Donetsk, seven civilians were killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours in Russian 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. She said her 35-year-old neighbor, who was killed in her backyard, had been evacuated earlier this year as authorities had requested, but returned home after she was unable to support herself. Several houses on the quiet residential street were damaged, with doors and roofs ripped off. “We can rebuild, but we can’t bring her back,” said another neighbor, Olha Rusanova. 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. . 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 Bashtanka, northeast of the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, according to regional governor Vitaliy 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.” 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. Dnipropetrovsk Governor Valentin Reznichenko said a five-story apartment building, a school and a vocational school building were damaged. On Friday, cruise missiles fired by Russian bombers struck Dnipro, a large city in southeastern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, killing at least three people and wounding 16, Ukrainian officials said. On Saturday, Russian defense officials claimed the strike destroyed “laboratories producing components and repairing Tochka-U ballistic missiles, as well as multiple rocket launchers.” 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. The deadliest Russian attack this week came on Thursday, when a Russian rocket attack killed at least 24 people – including three children – and wounded more than 200 in Vinnytsia, a town southwest of the capital Kiev, far from the lines of forehead. Three of those missing after the attack were found alive in the rubble on Saturday and one person is missing, the emergency service said. Russia claimed that Kalibr cruise missiles hit a “military facility” hosting a meeting between the Ukrainian air force command and foreign arms suppliers. Ukrainian authorities insisted the venue, a concert hall, had nothing to do with the military. Ukraine’s interior ministry says Russian forces have carried out more than 17,000 strikes on civilian targets during the war, killing thousands of fighters and civilians and driving millions from their homes. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also rippled through the global economy, raising energy and food prices and reducing exports of key Ukrainian and Russian products such as grain, fuel and fertilizer.
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title: “Russia Is Intensifying Attacks In The North East And South Of Ukraine " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-08” author: “Charles Latta”
Russian forces fired missiles and shells at cities and towns across Ukraine on Saturday after the Russian military said it was stepping up its offensive against its neighbor. Ukraine 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 bombardment of civilian infrastructure and settlement residents in 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 that a second full-scale Russian assault on the northern city may be imminent. At the same time, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians not to give in to Russia’s attempts to scare them with warnings of horrific missile attacks to come, which he said were aimed at dividing Ukrainian society. “Sometimes, information weapons can do more than regular weapons,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation. “It is clear that no Russian missile or artillery will be able to break our unity or lead us off our path” to a democratic, independent Ukraine, he said. “And it is also clear that the unity of Ukraine cannot be broken by lies or intimidation, forgeries or conspiracy theories.” In the Kharkiv region, at least three civilians were killed and three others wounded Saturday in a pre-dawn Russian strike in the city of Chuhuiv, which is just 120 kilometers from the Russian border, police said. Serhiy Bolvinov, the deputy police chief of the Kharkiv region, said four rockets possibly fired from the Russian city of Belgorod hit an apartment building, a school and administrative buildings at about 3:30 a.m. Writing on Facebook, he said that the three bodies were found under the rubble. Lyudmila Krekshina, who lives in the apartment building that was hit, said a husband and an elderly man who lived on the ground floor were killed. Another resident said she was lucky to survive. “I was going to run and hide in the bathroom. I didn’t make it and that saved me,” said Valentina Busuyeva. Pointing to her damaged apartment, she said: “There’s the bathroom — explosion. Kitchen – half a room. And I survived because I stayed put.” In neighboring Sumy region, one civilian was killed and at least seven wounded when Russians opened fire with mortars and artillery on three towns and villages not far from the Russian border, regional governor Dmytro Zhivitsky said on Saturday. In the war-torn eastern region of Donetsk, seven civilians were killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours in Russian 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. She said her 35-year-old neighbor, who was killed in her backyard, had evacuated earlier this year as authorities had requested, but had returned home after being unable to support herself. Several houses on the quiet residential street were damaged, with doors and roofs ripped off. “We can rebuild, but we can’t bring her back,” said another neighbor, Olha Rusanova. 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. . 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 Bashtanka, northeast of the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, according to regional governor Vitaliy 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.” 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. Dnipropetrovsk Governor Valentin Reznichenko said a five-story apartment building, a school and a vocational school building were damaged. On Friday, cruise missiles fired by Russian bombers struck Dnipro, a large city in southeastern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, killing at least three people and wounding 16, Ukrainian officials said. On Saturday, Russian defense officials claimed the strike destroyed “laboratories producing components and repairing Tochka-U ballistic missiles, as well as multiple rocket launchers.” 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. The deadliest Russian attack this week came on Thursday, when a Russian rocket attack killed at least 24 people – including three children – and wounded more than 200 in Vinnytsia, a town southwest of the capital Kiev, far from the lines of forehead. Three of those missing after the attack were found alive in the rubble on Saturday and one person is missing, the emergency service said. Russia claimed that Kalibr cruise missiles hit a “military facility” hosting a meeting between the Ukrainian air force command and foreign arms suppliers. Ukrainian authorities insisted the venue, a concert hall, had nothing to do with the military. Ukraine’s interior ministry says Russian forces have carried out more than 17,000 strikes on civilian targets during the war, killing thousands of fighters and civilians and driving millions from their homes. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also rippled through the global economy, raising energy and food prices and reducing exports of key Ukrainian and Russian products such as grain, fuel and fertilizer.
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