A Russian drone assault focused civil infrastructure in Odesa late on February 22, sparking a hearth, the regional governor mentioned.
Oleh Kiper mentioned on Telegram there have been accidents within the assault and numbers had been being clarified. A video posted on social media confirmed a hearth that appeared to have engulfed plenty of buildings.
”On account of the Russian assault by assault drones, a hearth broke out at a civil infrastructure facility in Odesa. There may be details about the injured individuals,” Kiper mentioned. ”All related providers are working on the scene.”
Earlier, the Ukrainian army reported that a number of teams of drones had been attacking Ukraine from the east and south.
Within the japanese Donetsk area, regional Governor Vadym Filashkin mentioned at the least one individual was killed by Russian shelling. 9 individuals, together with 4 younger individuals, had been injured, he mentioned.
He mentioned 13 shells had hit the village and revealed pictures of destroyed homes.
Earlier, the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned that it had captured Pobeda, a village positioned about 20 kilometers southwest of Donetsk, the regional capital. Earlier than the battle, Pobeda had a inhabitants of just a few dozen individuals.
The Ukrainian army has not commented on the Russian declare.
Russian army bloggers say that though the village is kind of small, it allegedly has tactical significance in that it’s positioned on the primary highway to Vuhledar in southern Donetsk.
Ukraine’s army earlier acknowledged it struck a coaching floor in occupied Kherson the place Russian troops had been getting ready for an assault on Ukraine’s bridgehead at Krynka on the left financial institution of the Dnieper River, the second time this week a strike has killed scores of Russian personnel.
On the identical time, Kyiv denied Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu’s declare that Russian forces had captured the Ukrainian bridgehead at Krynka.
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”There have been at the least three strikes on the focus of Russian troops on the coaching floor close to Novaya Kakhovka,” Nataliya Humenyuk, spokeswoman of the Protection Forces of Southern Ukraine, informed RFE/RL on February 22.
”The Russian army was getting ready to storm Krynka, which they claimed they’d already been captured…. In accordance with preliminary information, commanders of the Dnieper group [of Russian forces] had been additionally there. The knowledge remains to be being checked,” Humenyuk mentioned.
In a separate assertion made to Suspilne, Humenyuk mentioned at the least 60 Russian troopers had been killed within the assault.
Ukrainian forces in November 2022 liberated Kherson metropolis and the remainder of the area on the suitable financial institution of the Dnieper forcing Russian troops throughout the river. Final yr, Kyiv’s troops managed to additionally set up a small bridgehead on the Dnieper’s left financial institution, which has come beneath fixed Russian assaults.
The purported Ukrainian strike on Russian forces in Kherson was the second in as many days wherein numerous Russian troops had been reportedly killed.
On February 21, BBC Russian reported {that a} Ukrainian strike on a coaching floor in Moscow-occupied Donetsk had killed at the least 60 Russian troops.
In accordance with the report, Russian troopers from the thirty sixth Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade had been lined up and had been ready for the arrival of Main Basic Oleg Moiseyev, commander of the twenty ninth Russian Military, when the strike occurred on February 20.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine has commented on the report. Professional-Russian social media shops posted movies and pictures purportedly displaying dozens of uniformed lifeless our bodies, accusing Moiseyev of constructing troopers stand in line ready for his arrival once they had been hit.
Ukrainian Air Power spokesman Yuriy Ihnat mentioned on February 22 that since launching the invasion two yr in the past, Russia has launched greater than 8,000 missiles and 4,630 drones — of which 3,605 have been shot down — at targets inside Ukraine.
In Moscow, former President Dmitry Medvedev boasted that after Ukrainian forces final week withdrew from the japanese metropolis of Avdiyivka following a monthslong bloody battle, Russian troops would preserve advancing deeper into Ukraine.
With the battle nearing its two-year mark amid Ukrainian shortages of manpower, extra superior weapons, and ammunition, Medvedev signaled Moscow might once more try to seize the capital after being pushed again decisively from the outskirts of Kyiv in the course of the preliminary days of the invasion in February 2022.
”The place ought to we cease? I do not know,” Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Safety Council, mentioned in an interview with Russian media.
”Will or not it’s Kyiv? Sure, it in all probability needs to be Kyiv. If not now, then after a while, possibly in another section of the event of this battle,” he mentioned.
Medvedev was as soon as thought of a reformer in Russia, serving as president to permit Vladimir Putin to be prime minister for 4 years to abide by time period limits earlier than returning to the presidency for a 3rd time in 2012.
However the 56-year-old former lawyer has change into identified extra not too long ago for his caustic articles, social media posts, and remarks that echo the outlandish type of historic revisionism that Putin has used to vilify the West and underpin the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.