News Desk
KYIV, UKRAINE: Russian missile strikes killed three people in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Sunday as fighting also intensified in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia again carried out shelling on the key town of Vuhledar, Ukrainian officials said.
Local officials said that as many as six people were also injured in Russian strikes on Kherson that damaged a hospital and a school.
Later on Sunday an elderly women was also killed in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the northeastern town of Kharkiv, regional Governor Oleh Synehubov said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in Donetsk was difficult and Kyiv required faster weapons supplies and new weaponry, just days after allies agreed to provide Ukraine with heavy battle tanks.
“The situation is very tough. Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other sectors in Donetsk region, there were incessant Russian attacks,” Zelensky said in a video address late on Sunday.
Russia wants to drag on the war, exhaust Ukrainian forces: Zelensky
Zelensky said Moscow wanted to drag on the war and exhaust Ukrainian forces. He said they have to make time for their weapons and speed up events, supplies, and new weapons options for Ukraine.
Russian troops had captured Kherson shortly after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and held the key city until Ukrainian forces retook it in November. Since its liberation, the southern city has remained under continuous Russian shelling.
