One dead and nine injured in Kharkiv after deadly Russian strikes in Zaporizhzhia region

On Saturday, Russian strikes hit buildings in a town 29 kilometres northeast of the main regional city, under Ukrainian control, killing three children, a woman and three men.

The Zaporizhia region declared a day of mourning, Sunday June 30, the day after a Russian strike which left seven dead and nearly forty injured. It’s a day”in memory of those killed by the enemy attack on Vilniansk”, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on social media. In the town, 29 kilometres northeast of the main regional city, which is under Ukrainian control, Russian strikes killed three children, a woman and three men on Saturday, according to the Interior Ministry. Authorities also said 36 people were among the wounded.

As the southern region of the country marked a day of mourning, one person was killed and nine others, including a baby, were injured on Sunday in a Russian strike on a post office in Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, the region’s governor, Oleg Synegoubov, announced on Telegram.

The Russian military continued its slow push into eastern Ukraine, claiming control of two more villages in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, after capturing a third on Saturday.

In addition to Saturday’s Russian strikes on the city of Vilniansk, eight people were killed in 24 hours in villages in the Donetsk region in the east of the country, according to Ukrainian authorities, bringing the day’s death toll to 11. .

The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that Russia was continuing to attack the city of Toretsk, where it has launched an offensive in recent weeks, and that a battle was underway in the village of New York, near the front.

New York has been intensely attacked since mid-June as Russian forces advance towards the city of Toretsk, facing an adversary lacking men and ammunition.

After these deadly strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his Western allies to “accelerate” their arms deliveries.