Twenty-two people were injured, including civilians, in a raid by Russian troops yesterday on the western Ukrainian town of Chorkov, which has largely escaped violence, according to preliminary figures announced Sunday by regional governor Volodymyr Trosh.
“Yesterday, Churkev was hit by four missiles fired from the Black Sea,” Troch said at a press conference broadcast on Facebook, adding that “22 people were injured in the strike, all are in hospital.” among those affected were “seven women and a 12-year-old child”.
According to Trokh, who also heads the local administration in the Chorkovsky district, the strike “partially destroyed a military facility” and “damaged residential buildings.”
Fierce fighting is underway in eastern Ukraine, especially in the cities of Severodonetsk and Lischansk, where President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken of “street fighting” and the European Union has promised to respond soon to Kyiv’s request for an official candidacy to join the bloc.
And the Ukrainian General Staff said yesterday morning that Russian troops launched attacks on Severodonetsk “with no success,” noting that Ukrainian soldiers repulsed the Moscow army near Vrobovka, Nikolaevka and Vasevka. Control of Severodonetsk will open the way for Moscow to another major city, Kramatorsk in the Donbas basin, a region that is mostly Russian-speaking and Russia wants to control it completely. 2014.
For his part, Leonid Bashnik, a spokesman for the separatist Luhansk region, said that “Severodonetsk has not been 100 percent liberated,” stressing that “in any case, it will be Severodonetsk. Lysechansk is ours.
In Lysichansk, residents face one of two options: flee and lose their homes, or remain under fire. On the other hand, a member of the Donetsk military administration said: “All the main cities on free land in this area have been without electricity since early Saturday morning.” Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, Bakhmut.
