KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the Ukrainian village of Ocheretine has been destroyed in fighting. The village is a target of Russian forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces have advanced into the region, attacking Kiev’s exhausted and depleted army with artillery, drones and bombs. Ukraine’s military acknowledged that Russian forces had gained a “foothold” in Oceletine, which had a pre-war population of about 3,000 people, but said fighting continued.
Residents are scrambling to evacuate their villages, including a 98-year-old woman who last week walked alone, wearing slippers and using a cane, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) to reach Ukraine’s front line. There was also
Not a single person is seen in the video, and none of the buildings in Oceletin appear to have survived the fighting. Most homes, apartment complexes and other buildings are damaged beyond repair, with many smashed into piles of wood and bricks. Factories in the suburbs also suffered major damage.
The drone footage, obtained by The Associated Press, shows the village of Ocheretine, a Russian military target in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. (Kherson/Green, via AP)
Footage also showed smoke billowing from several homes and fires in at least two buildings.
In recent weeks, Russia has stepped up attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with the aim of destroying the region’s energy infrastructure and terrorizing its 1.3 million residents.
Russian forces attacked Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine with a drone explosion, injuring four people and damaging a two-story civilian building that was set on fire overnight, regional governor Ole Sinievov announced Saturday.
Four people, including a 13-year-old boy, were injured by falling debris, he said on the messaging app Telegram.
The drone footage, obtained by The Associated Press, shows the village of Ocheretine, a Russian military target in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. (Kherson/Green, via AP)
Russia’s state agency RIA reported on Saturday that Moscow forces attacked a drone warehouse in Kharkiv used by Ukrainian forces overnight, citing Sergei Lebedev, a local pro-Moscow guerrilla coordinator. His comments could not be independently verified.
Sinievov said Russia also bombed Kharkiv on Friday, damaging residential buildings and causing fires. An 82-year-old woman was killed and two men were injured.
The Ukrainian military said Russia launched a total of 13 Shahed drones overnight into the Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk regions of eastern Ukraine, all of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said Saturday that overnight airstrikes damaged power substations in the Dnipropetrovsk region, causing temporary power outages to homes and businesses.
Fragments from the fallen drone damaged unspecified “critical infrastructure” and three private homes, one of which caught fire, Governor Serhii Lysak said. Two residents, a man and a woman, were rushed to the hospital.
The drone footage, obtained by The Associated Press, shows the village of Ocheretine, a Russian military target in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. (Kherson/Green, via AP)
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed early Saturday that Russian forces shot down four long-range, U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles overnight over Crimea, which it illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, but the ministry did not provide further details. Ta.
Ukraine recently began using missiles secretly provided by the United States to attack Russian-controlled areas, including a military airfield in Crimea and another area east of the occupied city of Berdyansk, U.S. officials said last week. Announced.
The new missile, long sought by Ukrainian leaders, would give Ukraine nearly twice the range of the intermediate-range weapon it received from the United States last October, up to 300 kilometers (190 miles). .
Ukrainian drones also damaged communications infrastructure on the outskirts of the Russian city of Belgorod, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the Ukrainian border, according to the local governor. Vyacheslav Gladkov did not say what the site was used for.
