Russia launched attacks on 11 regions of Ukraine overnight, killing at least 8 civilians and injuring many
Release date – Saturday, July 22 at 07:28 PM
Kyiv: At least eight civilians were killed and many others wounded in overnight Russian attacks on 11 regions in Ukraine, authorities said on Saturday, as fierce fighting continued in Ukraine to try to push Russian troops out of its occupied territory.
At least four people, including a married couple, were killed on Friday night when Russian troops shelled the settlement of York, south of the city of Bakmut, the Donetsk Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office said. It was the site of some of the longest and bloodiest fighting in the war until it fell to Moscow in May. Three other New York residents were hospitalized.
Also on Saturday morning, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said Russian forces struck the city of Kostiantinivka in the Donetsk region on Friday with multiple rocket launchers, killing two civilians. Another civilian was injured in the same attack, which also destroyed 20 private homes, cars and a gas pipeline, the ministry said in a post on its official Telegram channel. The Regional Military Administration reported Saturday morning that Russian cruise missiles destroyed a local cultural center and damaged apartment buildings, killing two people near the northern city of Chernihiv, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Russian border. It did not specify when the attack occurred, saying only that it happened within the past 24 hours.
Three civilians were injured after Russian troops shelled a town near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant overnight, local governor Serhii Lesak reported Saturday. Ukrainian officials have often accused Moscow of using the Zaporozhye factory, which Russian troops seized early in the war, as a base for firing into nearby Ukrainian-controlled territory. Concerns have also grown that Russia could sabotage Europe’s largest factory to thwart an ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive focused on the Zaporozhye region and the country’s industrial east.
