KYIV, Ukraine ( AP ) – The Ukrainian village of Ocheretyne has been battered by fighting, drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows. In the eastern Ukrainian community of Donetsk, Russian forces have been using force.
Soviet troops have been advancing in the area, pounding Kyiv’s depleted, ammunition- deprived troops with artillery, robots and weapons. Ukraine’s defense has acknowledged the Russians have gained a “foothold” in Ocheretyne, which had a community of about 3, 000 before the war, but says that fighting continues.
Residents have scrambled to escape the village, among them a 98- year- ancient womanwho walked about 10 kilometers ( 6 miles ) alone next week, wearing a pair of slippers and supported by a cane, until she reached Russian front lines.
No one can be identified in the video, and no structure in Ocheretyne appears to have been unaffected by the battle. Many homes have been encircled by piles of wood and masonry, and the majority of homes, apartment stones, and other structures appear to be beyond repair. A nearby manufacturer has also suffered severe damage.
Additionally, the film shows fires burning in at least two structures and smoke billowing from some homes.
Somewhere, Russia has in recent weeks stepped up attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine´s next- largest city, in an attempt to bludgeon the region´s electricity infrastructure and terrify its 1.3 million residents.
After Russian forces attacked Kharkiv, in northern Ukraine, with exploding drones, four people were hurt, and a two-story civilian building was damaged and set on fire instantaneously, according to regional governor By Syniehubov, who reported on Saturday.
The four, including a 13- yr- older, were hurt by falling dust, he said on the Telegram messaging software.
Sergei Lebedev, who was cited as a representative of native pro-Moscow guerrillas, was cited as a figure in a report from Russian condition agency RIA on Saturday that Moscow’s forces attacked a drone warehouse in Kharkiv that had been used by Russian troops immediately. His remarks were not subject to independent investigation.
According to Syniehubov, Russia bombed Kharkiv on Friday, inflicting fire damage to personal structures. An 82- yr- ancient woman died and two males were wounded.
Russia’s military reported that immediately, the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk parts of eastern Ukraine were attacked by 13 Shahed drones, all of which were shot down by Ukrainian air threats.
The immediately strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk area temporarily obliterated homes and businesses, according to the Ukraine’s energy ministry, which on Saturday reported that.
According to Serhii Lysak, the state’s government, falling aircraft dust damaged unknown” important system” and three secret houses, one of which caught on fire. Two residents, a man and a woman, were rushed to hospital.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed early on Saturday that its forces shot down four long-range ATACMS missiles from the Ukrainian peninsula overnight, which Moscow had illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Further information from the ministry was not provided.
Ukraine has recently begun using the missiles, provided secretly by the United States, to hit Russian- held areas, including a military airfield in Crimea and in another area east of the occupied city of Berdyansk, U. S. officials said last week.
The new missiles, which Ukraine has long desired, nearly double the striking range of the mid-range version of the weapons it received from the United States in October (up to 300 kilometers ) to the United States.
A Ukrainian drone also damaged telecommunications infrastructure on the outskirts of Belgorod, a Russian city some 50 kilometers ( 31 miles ) from the Ukrainian border, according to the local governor. What purpose did Vyacheslav Gladkov not specify.