Ukraine requires quicker weapons provides as Russia presses jap offensive

AFP

Russian missile strikes killed three folks within the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Kherson whereas combating raged within the jap Donetsk area the place Russia once more shelled the important thing city of Vuhledar, Ukrainian officers stated.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated Ukraine was going through a troublesome scenario in Donetsk and wanted quicker weapons provides and new forms of weaponry, simply days after allies agreed to offer Kyiv with heavy battle tanks.

“The situation is very tough. Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other sectors in Donetsk region – there are constant Russian attacks,” Zelenskiy stated in a video tackle late on Sunday.

“Russia wants the war to drag on and exhaust our forces. So we have to make time our weapon. We have to speed up events, speed up supplies and open up new weapons options for Ukraine.”

Three folks have been killed and 6 injured on Sunday by Russian strikes on Kherson that broken a hospital and a faculty, the regional administration stated.

Russian troops had occupied Kherson shortly after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and held the town till Ukrainian forces recaptured it in November. Since its liberation, the town has repeatedly been shelled from Russian positions throughout the Dnipro river.

Later on Sunday, a missile struck an house constructing within the northeastern city of Kharkiv, killing an aged girl, regional Governor Oleh Synehubov stated.

A Reuters image from the scene confirmed hearth engulfing a part of a residential constructing within the nation’s second most-populous metropolis.

Russia on Saturday accused the Ukrainian navy of intentionally hanging a hospital in a Russian-held space of jap Ukraine, killing 14 folks. There was no response to the allegations from Ukraine.

Ukraine’s General Staff stated in an announcement late on Sunday that Russian forces had shelled Bakhmut, the main focus of Moscow’s offensive within the jap Donetsk area, in addition to Vuhledar to the southwest the place combating has intensified in current days.

Ukrainian navy analyst and colonel, Mykola Salamakha, informed Ukrainian Radio NV that Russian troops have been mounting waves of assaults on Vuhledar.

“From this location we control practically the entire rail system used by the Russians for logistics … The town is on an upland and an extremely strong defensive hub has been created there,” he stated.

“This is a repetition of the situation in Bakhmut – one wave of Russian troops after another crushed by the Ukrainian armed forces.”

Reuters was unable to confirm the battlefield experiences.