Kiev confirms airstrikes on Russian-held areas

At the same time, a number of command posts, accommodation and supply depots have been shelled with barrel and rocket artillery since Saturday evening, according to a statement from the military leadership in Kiev. However, the exact targets were not mentioned.

However, the Russian Air Force also carried out several attacks on Sunday. “And there is still a risk that the enemy will launch missile and drone attacks against power infrastructure facilities throughout Ukraine.”

Attacks on Melitopol and Crimea

The Russian side reported several artillery attacks by the Ukrainian military on Saturday evening, including on the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine. In addition, Russian anti-aircraft defenses had become active over the region, as well as at Simferopol in Crimea.

According to the Russian-installed occupation administration, two people were killed and ten injured in the attacks on Melitopol. The exiled Ukrainian mayor of the strategically important city also confirmed the attack that began on Saturday evening and spoke of dozens of “invaders” killed. The information cannot be independently confirmed.

Air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian missiles, Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian government-appointed governor of the occupied part of the Zaporizhia region, said on the short message service Telegram. Four rockets would have reached their target. A recreation center was destroyed in the Ukrainian attack with HIMARS missiles.

The exiled mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov told Telegram that a church was hit in the attack. The Russian occupiers had converted this into a meeting place.

Key to Defending the South

HIMARS multiple rocket launchers are among the most effective weapons deployed by Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that its air defense forces intercepted five HIMARS-launched missiles near the cities of Donetsk and Melitopol in the past 24 hours.

Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Melitopol is the key to defending southern Ukraine. The city is an important industrial and transport center and has been occupied by Russia since March. “All logistics connecting Russian forces in the eastern part of the Kherson region and up to the Russian border near Mariupol are handled through it,” Arestovych said in a video recording on social media. “If Melitopol falls, the entire line of defense will collapse all the way to Kherson. Ukrainian forces will be given a direct route to Crimea.

Numerous attacks on Kherson

Meanwhile, according to the Ukrinform news agency, Russian troops have attacked the Kherson region 45 times over the past day. Two civilians are said to have been killed and five injured, the head of the military administration of the Kherson region, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said via Telegram, the agency reports.

In the city of Kadiivka in the Luhansk region, an explosion occurred on Sunday in a hotel that is said to be the headquarters of the Russian mercenary group Wagner. According to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, the corresponding statement was made via telegram by the head of the military administration of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai. According to him, many Wagner mercenaries were killed. The casualties of the enemy are very high, stressed Haidai accordingly.

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