Ukrainian forces are repelling constant Russian attacks on Bakhmut and other towns in the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian authorities have said, after denying Kremlin claims of 600 soldiers killed in a missile strike
Russia launched seven missile strikes, 31 air strikes and 73 attacks from salvo rocket launchers in the past day, the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces said in a daily report."Bakhmut is holding on despite everything," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in nightly video remarks.
"Russians were shelling Kherson with incendiary ammunition immediately after Christmas," he said, referring to the southern city abandoned by Russian forces in November. A Reuters team visited two college dormitories that Moscow said had been temporarily housing Ukrainian personnel and which it had targeted as revenge for a New Year's attack that killed scores of Russian soldiers and caused outcry in Russia.
"This is an information operation of the Russian defense ministry," Mr Cherevatyi told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne News.
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