Russian shelling heavy in east; Ukraine strikes key bridge

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Russia\u0027s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive in an occupied region.

A Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed three people and wounded 13 others Friday night, according to the mayor. Kramatorsk is the headquarters for Ukrainian forces in the country’s war-torn east.

Russian troops and the Kremlin-backed rebels are trying to seize Ukrainian-held areas north and west of the city of Donetsk to expand the separatists’ self-proclaimed republic. But the Ukrainian military said Saturday that its forces had prevented an overnight advance toward the smaller cities of Avdiivka and Bakhmut.

Nikopol has undergone daily bombardment for most of the past week, and a volley of shells killed three people and damaged 40 apartment buildings on Thursday, he said. Children watch as workers clean up after a rocket strike on a house in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.“Obviously, it will be used for yet another provocation to accuse the armed forces of Ukraine,” the directorate said, without elaborating.

For several weeks, Ukraine’s military has tried to lay the groundwork for a counteroffensive to reclaim southern Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson region. A local Ukrainian official reported Saturday that a Ukrainian strike had damaged the last working bridge over the Dnieper River in the region, further crippling Russian supply lines.Article content

“Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability,” the British said.

 

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