KYIV: Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Donetsk regions continued to be hit by deadly strikes from Russia on Saturday.
Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said on Saturday that a Russian guided bomb attack on a residential building killed two people and injured 10 others, including children, in the village of Cherkaska Lozova.
“Two women were killed. One was removed from the rubble, the other died in an ambulance,” he said.
A day earlier, Syniehubov reported that at least seven people were killed and nearly 100 injured, including at least 22 children, when a Russian strike on Kharkiv hit a high-rise residential building and playground.
In the Donetsk region, five people were killed by Russian shelling on Saturday in Chasiv Yar, according to Vadym Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk regional government.
“Chasiv Yar — is a city in which normal life has been impossible for more than two years. Don’t turn yourself into a Russian target! Evacuate!” he wrote on Telegram.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its forces had captured the settlement of Verezamske, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, part of incremental gains claimed by Moscow’s forces at a time when Ukrainian troops are operating in Russia’s Kursk region following their surprise cross-border attack on August 6.
The reports could not immediately be confirmed.
(VOA)
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