A serviceman grieves beside a Ukrainian flag at a makeshift memorial for fallen soldiers at Independence Square in Kyiv, on November 10 2023, in the middle of the Russian intrusion of Ukraine.
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Russia on Saturday introduced a rocket attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the surrounding area for the very first time in more than 7 weeks and pounded the east and south of the nation with drones, Ukrainian authorities stated.
Ukrainian border guards stated they had actually retaken a town in the nation’s northeast surrounding to the Russian border.
Officials in the east, the focus of Russia’s sluggish 20- month-old advance, stated Ukrainian forces had actually driven away many attacks by Moscow’s soldiers and they expected even more attacks, especially around the ravaged town of Avdiivka.
Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, stated a Russian ballistic rocket was introduced towards the capital at about 8 a.m. (0600 GMT).
“After a long pause of 52 days, the enemy has resumed missile attacks on Kyiv,” Popko stated on the Telegram messaging app. “The missile failed to reach Kyiv, air defenders shot it down as it was approaching the capital.”
Popko stated there were no casualties or significant damage.
Ruslan Kravchenko, local guv for the main Kyiv area, stated 5 personal homes and numerous industrial structures in the location were harmed. He stated 2 Russian rockets struck a field in between settlements.
Ukraine’s air defence likewise shot down 19 Iranian- made “Shahed” drones out of 31 introduced by the Russian forces over night in southern and eastern areas, the flying force stated.
Ukrainian intelligence authorities Andriy Yusov informed nationwide tv: “This is not the first or the last combined attack.” He indicated increasing varieties of air notifies in current days.
Ukrainian Flag in Border Village
Online video from Kharkiv area revealed border guards raising the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag in Topoli town along with the Russian border, without more description. Ukrainian requires a year ago made a lightning push to regain big swathes of area in the northeast and because June are participated in a counteroffensive in the east and south.
Prosecutors in northern Sumy area stated 2 individuals aboard bikes passed away when Russian forces shelled a roadway.
In the east, military representative Oleskandr Shtupun stated Ukrainian soldiers had actually driven away 35 Russian attacks in and near Avdiivka, which has actually been under extreme fire because mid-October
Shtupun informed nationwide tv that 70 percent of air campaign in the east and south targeted Avdiivka.
Officials in Avdiivka state they prepare for a brand-new Russian push on the city when the ground dries up from days of heavy rain. Videos reveal structures decreased to shells and authorities state increasing varieties of the staying 1,500 homeowners, from a pre-war population of 32,000, were preparing to leave.
In the Black Sea port of Odesa, local guv Oleh Kiper stated the southern area was assaulted with rockets and drones on Friday night and over night. The strikes injured 3 individuals and harmed port infrastructure centers, he stated without providing more information.
Russia has actually magnified barrages of Ukraine’s ports, consisting of Odesa, and grain facilities because Moscow in July took out of an offer to permit exports from Ukrainian ports.
Russian accounts of the battling stated its forces had actually struck positions near Bakhmut, a town Moscow recorded in May after months of heavy battling.
Reuters might not confirm accounts from either side.
