Ukrainian authorities have mentioned that cities and cities within the east have been closely bombed prior to now 24 hours.
Ukraine’s Inside Minister has mentioned that greater than 100 settlements got here beneath fireplace in 24 hours, marking the heaviest day of Russian shelling this yr.
In a press release on social media, Ukrainian Inside Minister Igor Klymenko mentioned Russia has fired a barrage of thousands and thousands of shells at cities within the nation’s japanese areas.
“Over the previous 24 hours, the enemy has shelled 118 settlements in 10 areas,” Klymenko mentioned on Wednesday.
“That is the very best variety of cities and cities attacked because the starting of this yr,” he mentioned.
Russia’s wave of strikes has left some cities and cities in ruins. Native authorities mentioned in a single day shelling within the metropolis of Kharkiv, close to the border with Russia, killed one individual, whereas one other additionally died in southeastern Kherson.
A Russian drone strike on the southern metropolis of Nikopol additionally killed a 59-year-old girl and injured 4 individuals.
Kiev reported {that a} Russian assault on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk induced a hearth that took hours to extinguish however resulted in no casualties.
Ukraine and its companions within the West, akin to america, fear that Russia might put strain on Ukraine by concentrating on vitality infrastructure as winter approaches.
In an interview printed Wednesday by British newspaper The Economist, Ukraine’s high normal Valery Zaluzhny mentioned the battle is shifting towards a struggle of attrition and that Ukraine will want new expertise and bigger military reserves to realize its targets.
Whereas Western supporters of Ukraine had hoped {that a} long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive would lead to main territorial positive factors, Zaluzhny mentioned within the interview that there can be no “deep and exquisite breakthrough.”
