Russian assaults on Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Dnipro areas and the Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa killed a minimum of two civilians, set a meals manufacturing unit ablaze and broken different infrastructure, properties and business buildings on Saturday, regional officers mentioned.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned Russia had used eight missiles of varied varieties and practically 70 guided aerial bombs towards communities and frontline positions in the course of the day, after Ukraine’s air pressure downed 13 Shahed drones that focused the Kharkiv and Dnipro areas in a single day.
Zelenskiy mentioned Moscow had no need for peace. “Russia can solely be compelled to go away Ukraine alone,” he mentioned in his nightly video handle. A world peace summit going down in Switzerland in June – with out Russia – “should succeed”, he mentioned.
He mentioned Ukraine’s a hundred and tenth mechanised brigade introduced down a Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber over the japanese Donetsk area, one in all 4 areas of Ukraine Moscow says it has annexed.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu mentioned on Friday Moscow had taken management of 547 sq km (211 sq miles) of the territories this yr.
Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv area, mentioned Russian shelling killed a 49-year-old man on the road close to his house within the village of Slobozhanske. An 82-year-old lady was killed and two males had been injured in in a single day shelling in Kharkiv metropolis, he wrote on the Telegram app.
A Russian missile assault set fireplace to a enterprise premises in an industrial district of Kharkiv metropolis, injuring six staff, he added. Native prosecutors recognized it as a meals manufacturing unit.
Within the south, Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper mentioned three folks had been injured within the metropolis by a missile strike.
Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the studies of casualties and harm.
An air pressure commander mentioned air defences introduced down all 13 of the assault drones in a single day, however Syniehubov mentioned falling particles injured 4 folks and sparked a hearth in an workplace constructing.
Within the industrial Dnipropetrovsk area, shelling injured a 57-year-old lady and broken infrastructure in Nikopol, close to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, and two had been wounded in one other in a single day assault, regional governor Serhiy Lysak mentioned.
First uploaded on: 05-05-2024 at 07:13 IST
