2023-10-23 06:45:00
The Ukrainian General Staff has announced that offensive actions are being carried out in the direction of Bakhmut, the Ukrinform news agency reported. The Ukrainian army is inflicting losses on personnel and equipment on the Russian troops, it said, without giving any figures. As a result of the Russian attacks, civilians were killed and injured and houses and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed. The missile units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed four enemy artillery systems. This information might not initially be independently verified.
Ukrainian soldiers near the front in Donetsk. (September 16, 2023)
Bild: Keystone/AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov
On Monday night, an air alarm was also raised in the Ukrainian capital Kiev for around two hours due to the risk of Russian drone attacks. On Saturday and Sunday, the Russian armed forces launched two drones from the north. The Ukrainian Air Force was unable to shoot them down, Ukrainska Pravda quoted Yuri Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, as saying.
Since the start of its war of aggression on February 24, 2022, Russia has repeatedly hit Ukraine with missile and drone attacks as well as massive artillery fire. The attacked country is using Western military aid to defend itself once morest the unprecedented invasion, which repeatedly hits civilian infrastructure.
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