Ukraine’s Supreme Military Command said in its daily report that Russian forces conducted two failed operations around Bakhmut and launched a number of airstrikes and artillery attacks on nearby villages.
And the commander of the private Russian group Wagner announced on Saturday that 99% of his fighters had left Bakhmut after their attack, which lasted for months in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war.
Ukraine said late last month that fighting had subsided in the region, but Ground Forces Commander Oleksandr Sersky said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were still fighting there.
“The enemy continues to suffer heavy casualties on the way to Bakhmut. The defense forces continue to fight. We will win,” Sersky added on the Telegram app after a visit he said he made to the forces around him. of Bakhmut.
Aerial bombardment of Dnipro and Kyiv
In contrast, a two-year-old girl was killed and 22 others injured in an airstrike in Dnipro, central Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russians of “attacking the city”.
Dnipro region governor Sergey Lysak said in a message on the Telegram app on Sunday that the shelling hit two two-story residential buildings, ten houses, a store and a gas pipeline.
He added that “a girl’s body was found under the rubble of a house in the Bydorodninska region”, explaining that she “had just turned two years old”.
“22 people were injured, including 5 children,” he added. He had spoken of 3 boys in serious condition in hospital.
Zelenskyy held Russia responsible for the bombing and the Ukrainian president released a video clip showing rescuers searching the destroyed building and the roar of industrial excavators was heard.
In Kiev, the head of the local military administration said the capital’s air defenses intercepted a number of missiles and drones.
“According to preliminary information, no air targets have reached the capital,” Serhiy Popko wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
He added that “the air defense forces destroyed everything from a distance in the direction of the city, and for the second night in a row the inhabitants of Kiev did not hear explosions above their heads”.
Russian airstrikes on Ukraine and Ukrainian bombardments on Russian soil have intensified in recent weeks, as Kiev confirms it is preparing for a major attack on Moscow forces in a bid to regain land it has lost since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
On the other side of the border, Ukrainian shells killed two people on Saturday in Belgorod, Russia, said the governor of the region.
The border villages of this region have suffered in recent days unprecedented artillery fire, which resulted, after the bombardment on Saturday, in the fall of seven people this week.
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