The neighbouring ground was littered with charred and broken vehicles.
Digital Desk: According to
regional officials, Russian missiles rained down on a central Ukrainian city
overnight, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than two dozen others
in a warehouse and an apartment block.
The attack in Kryvyi Rih,
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, comes as Ukrainian forces launch a
counteroffensive 15 months after Russia invaded.
In recent weeks, Russian
forces have launched multiple nocturnal missile strikes against Ukrainian
targets, and Tuesday's toll was among the greatest from a single attack. In
late April, missiles struck an apartment block in Uman's central business
district, killing 23 people, including six children.
Firefighters fought a blaze
as flames peeked through broken windows in the damaged apartment block,
according to images provided by Zelenskyy on his Telegram channel. The
neighbouring ground was littered with charred and broken vehicles.
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"More terrorist
missiles," he scribbled. "Russian killers continue their war against
residential buildings, ordinary cities, and people."Serhiy Lysak, the
governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, stated on Telegram that seven people's
bodies were retrieved from a private company's warehouse, and that
"another four destinies were cut short" inside the apartment complex.
He stated that the search had been suspended.
On the social networking
app, Kryvyi Rih Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul stated that 28 people were injured.
According to Russia's
Defence Ministry, its military fired missiles targeting Ukrainian operating
reserves as well as a warehouse of Western weaponry and ammunition. It said
that all of the facilities targeted had been hit.
Meanwhile, Kharkiv,
Ukraine's second-largest city, was assaulted with Iranian-made Shahed drones,
and the surrounding region was shelled, according to local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov
on Telegram. Two individuals were injured in the bombardment in Shevchenkove,
southeast of Kharkiv.
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of
Kharkiv, said separately early Tuesday that the drone strike destroyed a
utilities company and a warehouse in the city's northeast. Terekhov and
Syniehubov made no mention of any casualties in Kharkiv.
The military government in
Kyiv claimed that the capital was again targeted on Tuesday, but the inbound
missiles were intercepted by air defences, and there were no early reports of
deaths.
Air defences knocked down 10
of 14 cruise missiles and one of four Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by
Russian forces overnight, according to Ukraine's General Staff on its Facebook
page.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's deputy
defence minister, Hanna Maliar, told Ukrainian TV that offensive operations
were still underway in four areas in the south and east: near the town of
Orikhiv in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, near the city of Bakhmut in the
eastern Donetsk region, around the town of Marinka in the Luhansk region, and
near Lyman in the Luhansk region.
Ukraine's ground army
commander claimed the country's soldiers were "moving forward"
outside Bakhmut. On Telegram, Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that Russian soldiers are
"losing positions on the flanks."
Ukrainian officials have
been claiming tiny gains west of Bakhmut for weeks, which was largely destroyed
in the war's longest and bloodiest combat before Moscow's forces gained control
last month.
According to Zelenskyy's
administration, around a dozen front-line towns and villages in Ukrainian-held
portions of Donetsk have come under intensified shelling as Ukrainian soldiers
advance.
Also on Tuesday, the Russian
Defence Ministry released a video purportedly showing a German-made Leopard 2
tank and an American-made Bradley fighting vehicle recovered from Ukrainian
forces. According to the ministry, the footage was filmed by Russian military
following intense battle in Zaporizhzhia, and a soldier can be seen pointing to
the immobilised trucks. It was not able to confirm the video's validity right
away.
Battle zones in
Zaporizhzhia, like those in Bakhmut, are among numerous locations along the
nearly 600-mile front line where Ukrainian forces have increased their
counteroffensive operations.
Vladimir Rogov, an official
with the Moscow-appointed administration for Russia-controlled parts of
Zaporizhzhia, claimed that the Ukrainian counteroffensive had failed, telling
state news agency RIA-Novosti that Ukrainian forces "continue to suffer
colossal losses when they make new attempts to advance." He did not
elaborate, and his statements could not be verified quickly.
On Monday, Ukraine's deputy
defence minister, Maliar, said the country's military had recaptured seven
villages covering 35 square miles of eastern Ukraine in the previous week,
minor victories in the early stages of a counteroffensive.
Russian officials refused to
confirm Ukraine's advances, which were impossible to verify and may be reversed
in the ups and downs of battle.
The progress covered only a
limited area, emphasising the hardship of the war ahead for Ukrainian soldiers,
who will have to fight metre by metre to reclaim about one-fifth of their
country from Russian rule.
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