Russia has not said how many of its soldiers have been killed. Separately, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi - Kyiv's army chief - provided what appeared to be the first public Ukrainian military death toll, saying nearly 9,000 soldiers had died in action. These weapons do not discriminate between civilian and combatant, especially when used in populated areas as has been the case in Ukraine," the agency's executive director, Catherine Russell, said in a statement. "The use of explosive weapons has caused most of the child casualties. children's agency, said at least 972 children have been killed or injured over six months of war. 21, mainly from artillery, rocket and missile attacks. High Commissioner for Human Rights, citing its monitoring mission in Ukraine, said on Monday 5,587 civilians had been killed and 7,890 wounded between Feb. Ukraine and its Western backers accuse Moscow of waging an imperial-style war of conquest. 24 what it calls a "special military operation" to demilitarise its smaller neighbour and protect Russian-speaking communities. Reuters was not able to independently verify the battlefield reports of either side.
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Crimea has been rocked by a series of explosions in recent weeks, including a blast at a munitions depot that Moscow blamed on saboteurs. The city's Russian-appointed governor said an anti-air defence system had been triggered nearby. Russian media reported explosions in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. A Kyiv interior ministry adviser said smoke was seen rising from the bridge. The bridge, a key crossing for Russian military transport in the region, has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian forces as they stage a counter-offensive to retake the Kherson region. In Kherson, the sole bridge across the strategic Dnipro River was hit by high-precision HIMARS rockets supplied to Ukraine by the United States, injuring 15 people, a source in occupied Kherson's emergency services told Russia's Interfax news agency. To the south, renewed fighting and explosions were reported in Russian-occupied Kherson and in the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014. Security Council meeting be held on Tuesday to discuss the Zaporizhzhia plant, Russian state-owned news agency RIA reported, citing Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Overnight, Russian forces fired rockets into the nearby towns of Nikopol, Krivyi Rih and Synelnykovskyi, the area's regional governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, wrote on Telegram. Russia denies this and accuses Ukraine of targeting Zaporizhzhia with drones. The two sides have traded blame over frequent shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, where Kyiv accuses Moscow of basing troops and storing military hardware. In the port of Mykolaiv near Russian-held territory to the south, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said authorities planned a precautionary order for residents to work from home on Tuesday and Wednesday and urged people not to gather in large groups.įears of intensified attacks rose after Russia's Federal Security Service on Monday accused Ukrainian agents of killing Darya Dugina, daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist ideologue, in a car bomb attack near Moscow that President Vladimir Putin called "evil". In Kharkiv, a northeastern city that has come under frequent and deadly longer-range artillery and rocket fire, Mayor Ihor Terekhov announced an extension to an overnight curfew to run from 4 p.m. Other jurisdictions also restricted public gatherings.
The capital is far from the front lines and has only rarely been hit by Russian missiles since Ukraine repelled a ground offensive to seize the capital in March. intelligence.įearing renewed rocket attacks, authorities in Kyiv moved to ban public events related to the independence anniversary from Monday until Thursday. The official said the statement was based on downgraded U.S. official told Reuters that Russia "is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine's civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days." Warning of potential harm to civilians, a U.S. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that Moscow could try "something particularly ugly" in the run-up to Wednesday's 31st independence anniversary, which also marks half a year since Russia invaded. It's like sitting on a powder keg," said Alexander Lifirenko, a resident of the nearby town of Enerhodar, now under control of pro-Moscow forces.
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