By JON GAMBRELL
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised his nation there can be no letup within the counteroffensive that has reclaimed cities and cities from Russian troops, as shelling continued Sunday throughout a large stretch of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy ran by an inventory of cities that Ukraine has taken again in its lightning push throughout the northeast.
“Perhaps now it appears to a few of you that after a sequence of victories we've a sure lull,” he stated in his nightly video deal with. “However this isn't a lull. That is preparation for the following sequence… As a result of Ukraine have to be free — all of it.”
Ukraine’s army command stated its forces secured the jap financial institution of the Oskil River on Saturday. The river, which flows south from Russia into Ukraine, had been a pure break within the newly emerged entrance traces since Kyiv’s counteroffensive started.
As Russian shells hit cities and cities over the weekend, the British protection ministry warned that Moscow is prone to enhance assaults on civilian targets because it suffers battlefield defeats.
“Within the final seven days, Russia has elevated its concentrating on of civilian infrastructure even the place it in all probability perceives no instant army impact,” the ministry stated in a web based briefing. “Because it faces setbacks on the entrance traces, Russia has seemingly prolonged the areas it's ready to strike in an try to straight undermine the morale of the Ukrainian individuals and authorities.”
Russian hearth killed 4 medics trying to evacuate a psychiatric hospital within the Kharkiv area on Saturday, stated governor Oleh Syniehubov. Two sufferers have been wounded within the assault in Strelecha, he stated.
In a single day shelling additionally hit a hospital in Mykolaiv, a major Black Sea port, regional governor Vitaliy Kim stated. And 5 individuals had died over the previous day in Russian assaults within the Donetsk area, one in every of two Ukrainian areas that Russia acknowledges as sovereign states, governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated.
The separatist forces that management a lot of Donetsk stated Ukrainian shelling of a prisoner-of-war colony in Olenivka killed one prisoner and injured 4. Greater than 50 POWs have been reported killed in a July assault on the Olenivka jail; Russian and Ukrainian authorities blame one another.
A Washington-based suppose tank, the Institute for the Research of Conflict, stated Russian forces in Donetsk proceed to conduct “meaningless operations” on villages versus reinforcing the entrance line.
A high Vatican envoy and his entourage got here beneath hearth as they have been distributing humanitarian provides in Ukraine, the Vatican information service stated on Sunday. It reported no accidents.
The incident befell close to town of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, and compelled Vatican Almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski and others to take cowl.
“For the primary time in my life, I didn’t know the place to run. As a result of it isn't sufficient to run, it's important to know the place to go,” stated the Polish-born cardinal, whose workplace makes charitable contributions within the pope’s identify.
Three individuals have been wounded in nighttime shelling of Nikopol, throughout the river from Europe’s largest nuclear energy station, stated regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko. The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant was captured by Russian forces in March, however is operated by Ukrainian engineers. Its final reactor was switched off per week in the past after repeated energy failures as a result of shelling put essential security techniques in danger.
In the meantime, prosecutors in Kharkiv are accusing Russia of torturing civilians in a single village that was just lately freed. In a web based assertion, they stated they discovered a basement the place Russian forces allegedly tortured prisoners in Kozacha Lopan, close to the border with Russia.
In photographs they launched, they confirmed a Russian army TA-57 phone with further wires and alligator clips hooked up to it. Ukrainian officers have accused Russian forces of utilizing the Soviet-era radio telephones as an influence supply to shock prisoners throughout interrogation. It was not instantly attainable to confirm the Ukrainians’ claims.
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