UKRAINE UPDATES | Blasts rock Ukraine city as Russian missiles drive up civilian death toll

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A Ukrainian military journalist takes cover in a wheat field as he captures video while a tank team with the 14th Mechanized Brigade of Prince Roman the Great fire on an enemy position on July 01, 2022 in the Donetsk District, Ukraine.Blasts rock Ukraine city as Russian missiles drive up civilian death toll

Kyiv says Moscow has intensified missile attacks on targets far from the front-line and that it has deliberately hit civilian sites while Russian forces have been grinding out gains on the battlefield in the east, pummelling urban areas with artillery. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strikes in his nightly video address on Friday as “conscious, deliberately targeted Russian terror and not some sort of error or a coincidental missile strike”.

Russian forces destroyed five Ukrainian army command posts in the Donbas and in the Mykolaiv region with high-precision weapons and also struck three storage sites in the Zaporizhzhia region, the defence ministry was quoted on Saturday as saying. The ministry published still photographs of Gerasimov at work. It was not immediately clear when the visit took place or if Gerasimov had visited Ukraine itself.July 02 2022 — 10:45Powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Saturday, the mayor said, a day after authorities said at least 21 people were killed when Russian missiles struck an apartment building near the Black Sea port of Odesa.

 

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