ONLINE: ‘Revenge for Makijivka.’ Russia attacked the railway station in Druzhkivka, according to Kyiv, it hit the stadium | iRADIO

The defense resort in Moscow also reported that in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, the army destroyed four American HIMARS rocket launchers and more than 800 missiles.

According to Kyryl Tymoshenko, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russians in Druzhkivka destroyed the winter stadium used by the Donbass hockey club. One person also died and another was injured in the attack.

On Tuesday, Moscow raised the number of victims of the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka from 63 to 89. According to it, the attack was made possible by the soldiers themselves, because they violated the ban on the use of mobile phones and thus drew attention to themselves. Russia is investigating the circumstances of this event.

Mobilized Russian soldiers were stationed in Makijivka in a school that served as a barracks. Their intervention angered Russian nationalists and some parliamentarians, who question the military strategy adopted by the Russian army there, Reuters writes.

Offensive at Bachmut

As at the end of last year, Russian soldiers are continuing offensive operations around Bakhmut, the Ukrainian General Staff said in the morning report on the situation on the front. According to him, Russian troops are also shelling civilian targets, especially in the north of the Donetsk region and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of southern Ukraine.

In the last 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia sent seven missiles, carried out eighteen airstrikes and over 85 strikes from salvo rocket launchers.

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It focused these attacks “especially on the civilian infrastructure of the cities of Kramatarosk in the Donetsk region, Zaporizhia and Kherson. There are victims among the civilian population,” the Ukrainian command wrote. It also warned that the danger of air attacks still applies over the entire territory of Ukraine.

According to Kyiv, the Russian army continues to focus its offensive operations on the area of ​​strategically important Bakhmut. Moscow units are also trying to improve their tactical positions in the direction of Kupyansk in the Luhansk region and in the direction of Lyman and Avdijivka in the Donetsk region.

Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian soldiers have repelled attacks by Russian troops in the vicinity of Stelmachivka and Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast and in Soledar, Krasno Hora, Bakhmut, Majorsk, Marjinka, Novomychaylivka and other municipalities in Donetsk Oblast.

Reports from both opposing sides about the current conflict, which was triggered by the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine last February, cannot be independently verified.

The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) also writes about the Russian offensive in the vicinity of Bakhmut and Avdijivka and possible efforts to strengthen the positions of the Russian army in the west of the Donetsk region. According to him, Russian forces are continuing limited counterattacks along the line between the cities of Svatove and Kreminna, Ukraine is shelling Russian logistics positions in the Luhansk region.

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