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Al-Jazeera correspondent said that confrontations between Russian and Ukrainian forces raged south of Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, during the past 24 hours, while Russia moved part of its forces from the coastal city of Mariupol to the north to besiege Ukrainian forces at the Donetsk border.
The correspondent said that the confrontations focused on the Parvenkova front, south of Kharkiv, and that the Russian forces are now 20 kilometers from the city, and that they have escalated their bombardment using missiles and heavy artillery.
The authorities in Kharkiv also reported that the Ukrainian air defenses had shot down a Russian Su-34 warplane.
In turn, Ukrainian intelligence said that the armed forces regained control of the village of Ruska Lozova on the Kharkiv road.
In Kherson region (central-south), Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that Ukrainian forces are still in control of the northern regions of the region, days following Russia announced control of all its borders.
Al-Jazeera correspondent also spotted during a tour of the region Ukrainian reinforcements southeast of Mykolaiv (central-south), where several shells landed while trying to enter the Kherson province.
night raids
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the elimination of 120 Ukrainian soldiers in raids last night on a number of Ukrainian regions.
Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov also indicated that 20 ammunition and fuel depots had been destroyed, 5 of which were destroyed using high-precision missiles.
On the other hand, the Civil Military Administration of Lugansk region, eastern Ukraine, said that Russian forces destroyed two schools and 20 homes in several towns during the past 24 hours.
The administration’s governor, Sergey Gaidai, announced the continuation of evacuations from the province towards safer areas in western Ukraine.
For his part, the governor of the Donetsk region announced the deaths and injuries of civilians in both Donetsk and Mariupol.
In the same regard, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement that Russian forces bombed civilian and military infrastructure facilities in the east of the country.
The statement added that the Russian forces are moving units of their forces from the Belgorod region towards Donbass and Izyum.
The governor of Zaporozhye announced that Russia had moved part of its forces from the port city of Mariupol to the north to besiege Ukrainian forces at the Donetsk border.
separatist novel
On the other hand, Denis Pushilin, the leader of the separatists in Donetsk, said that his forces are in contact with the Ukrainian military inside the Azovstal industrial complex in the city of Mariupol.
He added that the separatist authorities have information regarding the presence of regarding 400 foreign mercenaries among the besieged forces inside the compound.
As for the mayor of Mariupol, he told Al Jazeera that the bombing of the Azovstal complex by Russian forces continues with artillery.
In the capital, Kyiv, the city’s mayor, Vitaly Klitschwa, said that on Friday, relief teams and civil defense retrieved a body from under the rubble of an apartment building in the Shevchenkivsky district, west of the city.
Relief teams continue to remove rubble from the targeted building, which was bombed by the Russian army with two missiles on Thursday evening.