A Russian airstrike on a school killed at least two civilians and injured two in the Kharkiv region on Monday, local Ukrainian authorities said.
The country admitted on Sunday that the situation was “tense” on the Eastern Front.
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TWO DEAD IN STRIKE ON SCHOOL
A Russian airstrike on a school killed at least two civilians and injured two in the Kharkiv region on Monday, local Ukrainian authorities said. “Two men aged 63 and 65 died on the spot,” said the governor, Oleg Sinegoubov, on Telegram, adding that two women aged 63 and 66 had been injured and hospitalized.
According to him, a “guided aerial bomb” hit a “school establishment” in the town of Loukyantsi, located north of Kharkiv and very close to the Russian border.
BOMBING RAID
Russian rocket fire killed four civilians in Siversk, in the Donetsk region (east), in Ukraine, local Ukrainian authorities said on Monday.
“The town (of Siversk) was bombarded yesterday evening with multiple rocket launchers. It was established that four men aged 36 to 86 were killed,” Governor Vadym Filashkin said on social media.
This mining town was populated by 11,000 inhabitants before the Russian invasion. It is located near the front and is subject to very frequent bombings.
ANTI-AIR DEFENSE
“Every day we are doing everything we can to strengthen the air defense of Ukraine. I am grateful to Germany for its leadership and for the new Patriot system, which in the hands of the Ukrainians will demonstrate that Russian terror can be defeated,” says Volodymyr Zelensky on .
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The alert is serious. Ukraine admitted on Sunday that the situation was “tense” on the eastern front, where a Russian army “in numerical superiority” is pushing ever harder to seize the strategic locality of Chassiv Iar, facing Ukrainian forces with low ammunition stocks. Ukrainian Defense Minister Roustem Umerov said he visited soldiers in the area where the fighting is currently taking place.
On this eastern front, Russian troops are attempting a breakthrough “west of Bakhmut”, a city that they conquered in May 2023 after a particularly bloody and destructive battle, he said. A little earlier, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Oleksandr Syrsky, had also assured that Russia was concentrating its efforts in this area in order to seize Chassiv Yar, about 20 km to the west of Bakhmut. Such a conquest would offer the Russian military a chance to advance in the region.
The city of Chassiv Yar, perched on a height, extends less than 30 kilometers southeast of Kramatorsk, the main city in the region under Ukrainian control and an important railway and logistics hub. By seizing it, Russia wants “create the conditions for deeper progress” towards Kramatorsk, noted the commander-in-chief. This offensive occurs at a very delicate time for the Ukrainian army, which is struggling to recruit against an adversary whose troops are better stocked and better equipped.
