While Moscow attempted to pound the invaded nation into submission with additional missile and drone attacks on vital infrastructure, Russian troops fought Thursday (local time) to retake lost ground in parts of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin has illegally annexed.
In the vicinity of the village of Bilohorivka in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region, Russian soldiers attacked Ukrainian positions. In the neighbouring Donetsk region, fighting raged near the city of Bakhmut.
Separatists supported by the Kremlin have ruled over portions of both areas for eight years.
Kherson city, which had a pre-war population of roughly 284,000, was one of the first cities conquered by Russia when it invaded Ukraine, and because of its important industry and river port, it continues to be a target for both sides. According to officials, 15,000 of the city’s 60,000 anticipated residents had already gone as of Thursday (local time) in preparation of increased assaults.
According to the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian soldiers kept up the fight, launching 15 assaults against Russian military bases in the Kherson region.
While this was going on, Russia sent drones and missiles to eight different regions of Ukraine as part of its stepped-up attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. According to the Ukrainian president’s office, overnight attacks across the country claimed the lives of at least three civilians and injured another 14.
Russian airstrikes in Kryvyi Rih damaged a power plant and another energy facilities, cutting off electricity to the city’s 600,000 population in central Ukraine. In addition to being the location of Zelensky’s birthplace, Kryvyi Rih is home to a number of important metallurgical enterprises for the Ukrainian economy. Valentin Reznichenko, the regional governor, claimed that the city had suffered significant harm.
According to Ukrainian police, four drones struck a school in the southern city of Mykolaiv, causing multiple fires to start.
Four drone strikes were also made against another school in the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia district, which resulted in damage. No casualties were reported by authorities.
Authorities requested that inhabitants decrease their energy use between 7am and 11am and turn down the streetlights in their cities as a result of Russia’s ongoing strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure.
Rolling blackouts were foreseen, they said.
Now, Reznichenko added, “any illuminated shop sign, billboard, or washing machine might cause catastrophic emergency shutdowns.”
The general staff of the Ukrainian army said there was a heightened chance that Russian forces could launch an attack from Belarus with the aim of cutting off supply routes for Western weapons and military equipment.
Oleksei Hromov, a deputy chief of general staff’s main operational department, said Russia was deploying aircraft and troops to air bases and military infrastructure facilities in Belarus.
An influential Russian military specialist accidentally admitted that Iran has given Russia drones it employs in Ukraine, despite the Kremlin’s protestations to the contrary.
Unaware that he was being interviewed live on television, Ruslan Pukhov, the chairman of the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, urged reporters not to ask him where the drones originated from before the interview.
Although the government hasn’t confirmed it, “we all know they are built in Iran,” Pukhov said.
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, denounced as “rumours” and “far-fetched assumptions” claims that Moscow is utilising Shahed drones produced in Iran in Ukraine.
Hossein Amirabdollahian, the foreign minister of Iran, claimed in a tweet that he had informed the foreign policy leader of the European Union that “the charge of supplying Iranian missiles to Russia for use in the battle with Ukraine is a bogus claim.”
The EU imposed penalties on Iran’s Shahed Aviation Industries and three Iranian military generals on Thursday (local time) for endangering Ukraine’s territorial integrity by supplying Russia with drones.
In an effort to gain ground, Russia attacks Ukraine’s infrastructure.
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