KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s presidential office says that a minimum of five civilians have been killed and eight have been wounded by the newest Russian shelling.
A press release on Wednesday says Russian troops used six Iranian suicide drones to strike the town of Bila Tserkva within the Kyiv region, leaving one person wounded.
The strikes were the primary in town since March when the Russians retreated from the areas near the Ukrainian capital after a failed try and capture it.
Russian forces also shelled the areas on the western bank of the Dnieper facing the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and within the Donetsk region.
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In Sviatohirsk, which was reclaimed by Ukrainian forces, a burial ground for civilians was found and bodies of 4 civilians were discovered, in accordance with Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the Ukrainian forces were pressing their offensive from Lyman toward Kreminna snd Svatove. Within the Kherson region, the Ukrainian troops captured eight towns and villages to date this week during their counteroffensive, in accordance with the presidential office.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Kyiv has dismissed as “worthless” the laws that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Wednesday formalizing the annexation of 4 Ukrainian regions into Russia.
“The worthless decisions of the terrorist country are usually not well worth the paper they’re signed on,” the top of the Ukraine President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said on Telegram messaging application. “A collective insane asylum can proceed to live in a fictional world.”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier said in his nightly address that he has signed a decree rendering void any of Putin’s acts designed to annex Ukrainian territories because the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
“Any Russian decisions, any treaties with which they fight to seize our land — all that is worthless,” Zelenskyy said at the top of his video address.
MOSCOW — Russian energy company Gazprom says it’s resuming gas supplies to Italy after reaching an agreement for transit through Austria.
The Russian government-controlled company had suspended delivery to Italy through Austria last week citing regulatory changes that got here into effect within the Alpine nation last month.
In an announcement Wednesday, Gazprom said the operator of an Austrian pipeline has indicated its willingness to handle the transit of gas to Italy “making it possible to resume the supplies of Russian gas across Austria.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws formally absorbing 4 Ukrainian regions into Russia, at the same time as its military is struggling to hold on to manage of the regions it illegally annexed.
The documents finalizing the annexation carried out in defiance of international laws were published on a Russian government website on Wednesday morning.
Earlier this week, each houses of the Russian parliament ratified treaties making the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions a part of Russia. That followed Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” within the 4 regions that Ukraine and the West have rejected as a sham.
On the bottom, Moscow’s war in Ukraine has entered a recent, more dangerous phase. Russia faces mounting setbacks, with Ukrainian forces retaking increasingly more land within the east and within the south — the very regions Moscow has pushed to annex.
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian army has recaptured quite a lot of villages in Kherson region as a component of its massive counteroffensive within the south of the country, the regional military command said.
The Ukrainian flag has been raised above Liubymivka, Khreschenivka, Zolota Balka, Biliaivka, Ukrainka, Velyka and Mala Oleksandrivka villages, Operational Command South said.
The villages are all targeting the correct bank of the Dnipro river within the northern a part of the region.
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