No casualties or damage were immediately reported. Four Kalibr missiles and four Iranian-made Shahed drones were shot down, it said.Īccording to regional officials, the southern province of Odesa and the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region were targeted by the attack.
Russia attacked south and southeast Ukraine overnight with cruise missiles and self-exploding drones, Ukraine’s air force reported Monday. It noted that Kyiv “has not yet committed the majority of its available forces to counteroffensive operations and has not yet launched its main effort.” Ukrainian forces may have put their counteroffensive operations on hold as they review their tactics, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. They are stepping up Moscow’s offensive around Kupiansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province and Lyman in the eastern Donetsk province, Maliar said on Telegram. Russia has concentrated a significant number of its military units, and particularly airborne assault troops, in Ukraine’s east, she said. Defense Ministry said Monday that Russia had recently redeployed several thousand troops from the banks of the Dnieper to buttress its positions in the Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut sectors, which reportedly have seen heavy fighting. Some analysts saw the dam breach as a Russian effort to thwart Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the Kherson region. Kyiv’s forces have intensified attacks along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line recently. The explosion occurred as Ukraine mustered for a counteroffensive. Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday that the Kherson region affected by the flooding had endured 35 Russian attacks over the previous 24 hours.Įxclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Moscow had the means, motive and opportunity to blow up the dam, which was under Russian control, earlier this month. A further 31 people were missing, he said. Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko said Monday that the death toll resulting from the dam collapse had risen to 18 - 14 from drowning and four from gunshot wounds sustained during evacuation.
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