The assaults got here within the aftermath of a large-scale assault on Donetsk a day earlier.
Ukrainian forces shot down 60 Russian assault drones in a single day from Saturday to Sunday, the Ukrainian Air Power reported on Sunday morning.
The drones have been shot down over Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Donetsk, it stated.
A complete of 94 drones have been launched from bases within the Russian territories of Millerovo, Oryol, Bryansk, and Kursk. Whereas falling particles brought about injury to a number of residential homes in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Poltava, the Air Power reported no casualties.
The assaults got here within the aftermath of large-scale assaults on the frontline space of Donetsk on Saturday.
Among the many areas hit was the city of Bilytske. At the least 4 explosions have been heard within the city. The shelling broken a petroleum station and not less than two close by residential buildings.
Additional Russian advances on jap entrance
Parked vehicles additionally caught hearth on account of the strike. In keeping with a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Service of Donetsk area, rescuers extinguished a hearth on the web site of the strike. Two homes, an administrative constructing, an infrastructure facility and vehicles have been broken.
At the least 132 folks, together with 12 youngsters, have been evacuated from Donetsk, Governor Vadym Filashkin reported on Sunday morning.
In keeping with Filashkin, Russian troops shelled the settlements of Donetsk 20 instances over all through Saturday, killing one particular person within the village of Hryshyne, not removed from Pokrovsk.
Saturday’s assaults broken over 60 homes in Donetsk, he added.
Russian troops are persevering with to advance on the jap entrance. Pokrovsk and Kurakhove stay the focal factors of the Russian jap offensive, now in its fifth month.
On Sunday, Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed it had captured three settlements within the jap Donbass area over the previous week.
It additionally claimed that the Ukrainian military’s losses within the frontline areas of Kharkov and Kursk over the week totalled greater than 2,835 personnel, 30 tanks and 122 armoured fight autos.
