Russian troops continued to shell Ukrainian cities over the weekend and attempted to seize new territories in the east of the country.
One person was killed and another injured on Sunday morning following the shelling of Nikopol, a city in the southeastern part of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the governor of the city, Sergei Lysak.
In Kharkiv, one person was injured when three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure overnight, regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said.
Ukrainian forces also shot down five drones – four Shahed drones and an Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone – over the partially occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk on Saturday evening, the Ukrainian military said.
In total, in the past 24 hours, Russian troops launched 12 missiles and 32 airstrikes on Ukrainian territory, as well as more than 90 attacks from multiple rocket launchers, the General Staff said. .
Ukrainian and Western officials have warned that Russia could launch a new full-scale offensive, but Ukrainian officials say Moscow is struggling to organize such an offensive.
“They have big problems with a massive offensive,” Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told Ukrainian television on Saturday night. “They launched an offensive, they just don’t say they started, and our troops are repelling it very powerfully. The offensive they planned is already gradually launched. But (this) is not the offensive they were counting on.”
