Russia-Ukraine war news: Ukraine inches forward on the front line
or 1.2 kilometers, Col. Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for Ukraine’s military in the east, told Ukrainian media . He said that gain had occurred as part of a “defensive operation that has been going on for many months.” His remarks came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “Bakhmut — well done. Step by step,” in his nightly address.
in the eastern and southern parts of the country, the British Ministry of Defense said in an update on Saturday. They “likely made good progress and penetrated the first line of Russian defense” in some areas, but were “slower” in others.
The Ukrainian failure is “clear as day,” he said Friday, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry . The remarks were his first acknowledging the counteroffensive. He told reporters that the Kremlin could say with “absolute certainty” that the campaign had begun.
The port city of Odesa was hit by a combined rocket and drone attack, killing three people and injuring a further 36, Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern command, told national news. Debris from an Iranian-supplied Shahid drone crashed into a residential building, causing a fire in which three people were killed and 26 injured. In the Odesa region, a further 10 people were injured from blast waves, Humeniuk said.
Ukrainian security services on Friday released a recording of a phone conversation that they said was evidence that Russia had sabotaged the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam. “It wasn’t them,” a voice, described by the Ukrainians as a Russian soldier, says on the recording, using an expletive to refer to the destruction of the dam. “It was our [guys].” A second soldier says, “[Our] sabotage group was there. They wanted to scare [people] with this dam. It didn’t go according to plan. It was more than they had planned.” The United States has not publicly issued any determination about what happened at the dam, or who — if anyone — was responsible, while Russia has claimed without evidence that Ukraine attacked the dam. The dam’s collapse has resulted in a humanitarian crisis in southern Ukraine, forcing thousands to evacuate.
Source: The Washington Post
