“The enemy began a large-scale offensive on five sectors of the battlefront south of Donetsk,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in Telegram.
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“But it did not achieve its objective, it was not successful,” added the ministry, which posted a video it claims to be from the battle, in which Ukrainian armored vehicles face artillery.aria heavy.
Kiev has stated for months that it is preparing a major counteroffensive against Moscow's forces to try to recover territories lost since Russia began the military operation in February 2022.
Much of Donetsk has, since 2014, been under the control of pro-Russian separatists. This is one of four Ukrainian territories that Russia announced it had annexed in September last year, alongside Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
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On the other side of the border, Russian authorities announced that on Sunday they prevented an incursion by Ukrainian fighters into the town of Novaya Tavolzhanka.
The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkov, reported on Telegram the fighting in the area, which was the scene of Ukrainian shelling in recent days.
The Russian army said shortly afterwards that it prevented, with the help of artillery,aria, the entry of a group of Ukrainian “terrorists” into Belgorod.
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The group was “hit by artilleryaria. The enemy dispersed and retreated,” the note adds.
“Victims of the enemy’s hatred”
The new incursion by pro-Ukrainian forces into Russian territory took place just hours after an air strike against the central region of Ukraine.
An attack on Saturday night killed a two-year-old girl and injured 22 people in the city of Dnipro. Another bombing on Sunday morning hit an air base near the city of Kropivnitskii in the center of the country, according to Ukrainian authorities.
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The Russian army confirmed night attacks against Ukrainian military air bases and highlighted that the bombings hit “command posts, radar stations and equipment”, but did not reveal the location of the targets.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky blamed Russia for the attack in Dnipro and said five children were injured in the incident.
In a tweet published this Sunday, Zelensky stated that, since the start of the conflict, in February 2022, 500 Ukrainian children have died from violence.
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“Many of them could have become famous academics, artists, sports champions and contributed to the history of Ukraine. But they were victims of missiles and enemy hatred,” he wrote.
Russia has intensified bombings against Ukraine in recent weeks, at the same time as incursions by Kiev troops into Russian territory have increased.
Two dead in Kharkiv region
Ukraine has never claimed the attacks on Russian soil, although presidential adviser Mikhailo Podoliak declared on Sunday that the situation in the border areas should be considered “as the future of Russia”.
As proof that fighting has intensified in this region, Ukrainian authorities reported that two women died this Sunday due to Russian fire in the city of Vovchansk, close to the border.
“The city of Vovchansk was bombed by the Russians again,” declared the prosecutor's office for the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine. “Enemy attacks caused the deaths of two civilian women, aged 62 and 74.”
On the Russian side, Ukrainian shelling on Saturday killed two people in Belgorod, Governor Viatcheslav Gladkov said.
Border municipalities in Belgorod were targets of unprecedented attacks, with a total of seven deaths and around 30 injuries during the week.
Gladkov on Sunday called on residents of bombed areas to leave their homes.
“I ask the inhabitants of the bombed areas, in particular the residents of the Shebekino district, to follow the instructions of the authorities and temporarily abandonariamind their homes”, declared the governor.
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