Constant shelling in Donetsk: governor calls on hundreds of thousands to flee - but Ukraine also reports successes
Created: 07/06/2022Updated: 07/06/2022 10:06 am
By: Stephanie Munk
After taking Luhansk, Russia is now attacking Ukraine massively in Donetsk, some of the residents have been called on to flee.
However, Kyiv also reports high losses among the Russians.
Massive shelling
of
Donetsk
region : Russia is now targeting other parts of the Donbass after capturing Luhansk
Governor
calls for
evacuation
: Hundreds of thousands of residents should flee the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk
This
news ticker
on the military situation in the
Ukraine war
is continuously updated.
Sloviansk/Kyiv - After conquering the entire Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, the Russians are now increasingly targeting Donetsk and shelling the region massively.
Apparently, the city of Sloviansk was hit particularly hard.
The regional government has now called on the hundreds of thousands of residents who live there to flee.
"My main advice is evacuation," Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Tuesday evening (July 5).
"There wasn't a day without shelling this week," the governor said.
The city is within range of Russian multiple rocket launchers.
"The enemy is chaotically shelling the city, the attacks are aimed at destroying the local population," the governor added.
According to the Ukrainian side, there is no longer a safe place in the whole of Donetsk.
71-year-old Vladimir Vasilyevich stands in front of the destroyed house of his relatives in Sloviansk.
© Michal Burza/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
Ukrainian troops strike back in the Donbass - Probably high Russian losses
After the capture of Luhansk by Russia, the Ukrainian soldiers regrouped and built a new defensive wall along the line of the three small towns of Siversk, Soledar and Bakhmut.
This should stop the Russian offensive on the Slovjansk-Kramatorsk industrial area - the headquarters of the Ukrainian military in Donbass - from the east.
Fighting would be ongoing for the front lines of defense.
A rocket stuck in the asphalt on a street in Kramatorsk.
© Genya Savilov/AFP
Two of the attacks by the Russian military in the Donbass were apparently
successfully repelled
by the Ukrainian troops .
However, the information cannot be verified independently.
also read
Ukraine diplomacy: Turkey halts Russian grain ship – Putin affront to Biden
NATO counters Putin's nuclear threat: Agreed in Elmau, nervous in the Kremlin
Around the towns of Verkhnyokamkanka, Bilohorivka and Hryhorivka:
the Ukrainian army is said to have fended off an attempted attack by Russian troops here.
The General Staff in Kyiv announced on Wednesday (July 6) that "considerable casualties" had been inflicted on "the enemy".
"The occupiers have withdrawn." The villages are 10 to 15 kilometers west of the former city of Lyssychansk, which Russia's troops conquered at the weekend.
In the Bakhmut area
, the Russian advance had been stopped there and the attackers had been "failed," according to the report by the Ukrainian general staff.