At least four civilians died last night in Russian shelling in
Kherson
, southern Ukraine.
Governor Alexander Prokudin
made this known on Telegram
, who posted a photo of the car hit by Russian troops in which two civilians who died in the flames were sitting.
A fire broke out in the center of Kherson due to the impact of missiles.
Kremlin troops also launched missiles on the eastern Sumy region, the military administration said that there were 25 explosions during the night: the communities of Krasnopil, Bilopillia, Esman and Seredyno-Buda were bombed", reports Ukrinform Meanwhile, the regional military command has announced that in the last 24 hours the Russian army has fired 144 times against 20 settlements in the
Zaporizhzhia
region . In the last week - the Kiev General Staff reported - the Russians have launched 40 missiles and 553 airstrikes against all of Ukraine.
Kiev meanwhile says Russian forces launched more than 1,500 attacks against Ukraine last week, an increase of nearly 25% over previous weeks.
According to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, quoted by the Kyiv Independent, more than 570 settlements were attacked last week, most of them in the Zaporizhzhia region.
"Last week, as a result of Russian attacks, 12 people died and 60 were injured," the minister added.
The Kremlin's anger over the attack on the bakery, but Kiev denies it: 'There were enemy collaborators in that restaurant'
Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov
called the rocket attack by Ukrainian forces in which a bakery in Lisichansk, Luhansk region, was hit on Saturday a "monstrous terrorist act" and killed 28 people, according to the toll provided from Moscow.
This was reported by the Ria Novosti agency.
The advisor to the Ukrainian mayor of
Mariupol
in exile
Petro Andriushchenko
has denied Russian statements according to which the Kiev army hit a bakery in Lisichansk, in Lugansk: "It's another fake by the Russians, the attack was against a restaurant in where collaborators of the enemy were located, he stated."
Meanwhile, a representative of the self-proclaimed Lugansk republic told Russian media that Emergency Minister Aleksey Poteshchenkoi
was killed in the attack on the restaurant
.
Russian media reported the news of Poteshchenkoi's death.
According to pro-Russian official
Eduard Sakhnenko
, two local deputies of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic,
Artem Trostyansky
and
Ivan Zhushma
, as well as Emergency Minister Aleksey Poteshchenkoi, also died in the Saturday evening attack in Lisichansk.
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