(Kyiv) Russian bombings left at least one dead and ten injured during the night from Wednesday to Thursday on three nearby towns in eastern Ukraine, announced Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko.
According to the minister, six S-300 missiles hit the towns of Pokrovsk, Myrnograd and Novogrodivka, located about forty kilometers northwest of Avdiïvka, which the Russians have been trying to surround and take for almost two months.
In Novogrodivka, the body of a man was found under the rubble of a residential building where emergency services were still looking for four other people, said Igor Monoz, head of the regional military administration.
“As a result of the bombings, ten people were injured, including four children. Five other people are being sought under the rubble,” the Minister of the Interior had indicated shortly before in a press release on social networks.
In Pokrovsk, a six-month-old baby and two boys aged 16 and 13 were injured, the Interior Minister said.
Since mid-October, the industrial town of Avdiïvka has faced incessant attacks from Moscow’s forces, who have been seeking to seize it for years.
Russian forces are located to the east, north and south of the town, very close to Donetsk, the regional capital occupied by Russia since 2014.
Zelensky visits near the front in the Kharkiv region
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled Thursday near the front line in the Kharkiv region (north-east) where he visited a command post near Kupiansk, the presidency reported.
“Fighters from the Kupiansk leadership protect the peaceful life of Ukrainians,” the presidency said in a message on Telegram, accompanied by a video in which Mr. Zelensky decorated soldiers. Russian forces have been carrying out an offensive in this area for several months, with minimal gains.