The Ukrainian navy says that Friday noticed a excessive stage of rocket assaults and airstrikes by Russian forces in areas alongside the front lines.
Russia launched 27 airstrikes and 75 a number of launch rocket assaults along with artillery barrages, the Common Workers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces mentioned in its report early Saturday.
Fierce preventing continues round the eastern city of Bakhmut. The Common Workers mentioned that “the enemy continues to assault the positions of our troops, carried out a number of unsuccessful assaults close to the settlements of Berkhivka, Ivanovske, and Severne,” and continued to shell greater than a dozen locations within the rapid neighborhood of Bakhmut.
A distinguished Russian navy blogger, who goes by the identify WarGonzo, mentioned that fighters of the Wagner private military company had “attacked in a number of instructions directly,” round Bakhmut. He claimed “a slight advance” to the east of town and repeated Wagner’s declare that it now controls Berkhivka, a village north-west of Bakhmut.
“In all these areas, PMC ‘Wagner’ operated with the assist of artillery,” WarGonzo mentioned. “Thus, now the primary strain on the Ukrainian garrison in Bakhmut comes from the north.”
Unofficial Ukrainian navy accounts have given an identical image of the preventing round Bakhmut, with most entry routes to town from the west and north-west minimize off.
To the southwest of Donetsk city, one other zone that sees virtually fixed battles, the Ukrainians mentioned that Russian items had carried out “unsuccessful offensive actions” at a number of locations within the area.
Russian navy bloggers have additionally reported offensive actions in a number of areas of this entrance, together with Mariinka, which has been virtually obliterated by the preventing.
The Ukrainian Common Workers additionally reported an uptick of cross-border shelling into the Kharkiv region, saying 23 communities had been affected – together with the border city of Vovchansk.
Within the south, in keeping with the Common Workers, not less than 34 locations in Kherson area got here beneath artillery assault from Russian positions on the east financial institution of the Dnipro. It additionally claimed that “The russian invaders are looking out homes and seizing boats and different watercraft.”
The Common Workers additionally claimed that within the occupied city of Mariupol, folks have been being denied new housing for lack of paperwork.
“Having destroyed greater than 80% of the housing inventory of Mariupol, the enemy provides the victims of those bombings housing in new buildings on the outskirts of the destroyed metropolis. Nevertheless, relying on the truth that the paperwork confirming the appropriate of possession have been destroyed together with the housing, the occupants cynically put ahead the requirement as a compulsory situation for acquiring new housing.”
CNN can’t confirm the declare.
What Russia says: The Russian Protection Ministry mentioned its forces have carried out assaults with aviation and artillery alongside the Luhansk-Kharkiv area border and claims to have “defeated enemy items within the areas of the settlements of Masyutovka, Ivanovka in Kharkiv area and Novoselivske” in Luhansk.
The ministry additionally claimed that Russian items had killed as much as 60 Ukrainian troops, in addition to destroyed a US-made M777 artillery system.
The Russian claims can’t be verified, however geolocated video reveals Ukrainian items beneath hearth within the space. It is unclear whether or not Russian forces have been in a position to advance within the space.
The ministry mentioned Russian forces had carried out artillery and thermobaric attacks on Ukrainian positions in areas west of town of Kreminna in Luhansk, and it claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainians in that space.
