The eastern Ukrainian cities of Bakhmut and Marinka continue to be the “epicenter of fighting,” according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday.
Twenty five “combat engagements” took place around Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka, the update said.
“Fighting for the city of Bakhmut continues. The occupiers carried out air strikes near Bakhmut and Ivanivske,” the General Staff said. “Ukrainian defense forces repelled numerous enemy attacks near the town of Marinka. In addition, Pobieda village in Donetsk region was shelled by the enemy.”
Russian attacks hit residential apartment buildings, private houses, a kindergarten and other civilian infrastructure facilities, injuring some civilians, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
“They continue to destroy civilian infrastructure near the contact line” in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, according to the update. The daily report also highlighted the “massive missile and air attack at Ukraine’s civil and critical infrastructure facilities,” which struck the city of Dnipro, the city of Zaporizhzhia, and settlements in the Kharkiv region.
Earlier on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the Ukrainian forces who are defending the country’s skies.
“From last night to this morning, they have shot down 25 Shaheds (drones). 25 out of 25. An excellent result,” Zelensky said in his daily address. “Each such downing means saved lives, saved infrastructure.”
