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The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti says that Ukrainian forces are “conducting intense artillery fire on the area of the town of Oleshky” in Kherson.
Oleshky is on the east bank of the river Dnipro, eight kilometers (five miles) from Kherson city, which is on the opposite bank and was recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces.
A RIA Novosti correspondent on the ground reported that explosions were heard in the town, including “the sounds of firing from a large-caliber machine gun.”
“They are attacking day and night continuously, you see, the forest is burning on the outskirts,” an employee of a gas station told RIA Novosti.
Cellular communication does not work in the town while shops and the market are closed, the agency reported.
A spokesperson of the Odesa Regional Administration Serhiy Bratchuk said there had been strikes against Russian military facilities in Hola Prystan and Hornostayivka, two towns on the opposite bank of the river from Kherson city. Bratchuk said there had been casualties.
The Ukrainian General Staff — in its evening update — said that further upstream the Russians had shelled a number of settlements within a few miles of the river’s banks.
There are also reports of heavy fighting in the Donetsk region, where the General Staff says that Russian forces were conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions.
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