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Ukrainian officials said Russia The city of Avdiivka, east of it, was bombed Ukraine Yesterday, Tuesday, it launched a ground attack on the city of Kubyansk in the northeast of the country, killing two civilians and wounding another, while Russia announced the destruction of 3 Ukrainian Navy drones in the area. Black Sea.
Statements by Ukrainian officials indicated that Russian forces suffered heavy losses during their ground attacks on the city of Avdiivka, forcing them to rely on air attacks in their battles to control the city.
The spokesman for the southern Ukrainian forces, Oleksandr Stopun, said during an interview with Ukrainian state television that the Russian forces dropped about 40 guided bombs during the past two nights, but the number of Russian ground attacks decreased to half of what it was during the previous two days.
The spokesman for the southern Ukrainian forces said that the losses incurred by the attacking Russian forces are estimated at about 2,400 soldiers, including dead and wounded, in the Donetsk region.
For his part, Vitaly Barabash, head of the military administration in Avdiivka, said that the city is subject to continuous artillery and air attacks, and that Russian forces are constantly trying to encircle it from several axes.
Bombing of Ukraine
Also in Ukraine, a Ukrainian official reported that Russian forces launched an attack on the city of Kobyansk yesterday, Tuesday, which led to the killing of two civilians in a village on the outskirts of the city.
Russian forces took control of the city of Kubyansk, located in the northeast of the country, at the beginning of their war in Ukraine, which broke out on February 24, 2022, but Kiev regained control of it last year.
Russia did not mention any information about the battles taking place around the cities of Avdiivka and Kubyansk this week, but it indicated the success of the artillery and air strikes launched by its forces near Bakhmut, which is located in northeastern Ukraine and was controlled by Russian forces last May after fierce battles that lasted for many months.
In this context, Ukrainian sources reported that a man was injured as a result of a Russian bombing on the city of Nikopol in the Dnipro-Petrovsk District, southern Ukraine.
District Governor Serhiy Lysak said that Russia attacked Nikopol with kamikaze drones and artillery in two separate strikes last night.
Ukrainian officials also reported that 8 people were injured yesterday, Tuesday, as a result of Russian bombing on the Kherson regions in the south, and Kharkiv in the northeast of the country.
Destruction of naval marches
For his part, the pro-Russian governor of Sevastopol said that the Russian Black Sea Fleet was able to repel a Ukrainian attack off Crimea.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement the destruction of 3 Ukrainian Navy drones in the Black Sea, noting that they were targeting the Sevastopol Bay in Crimea.
The Russian Ministry’s statement explained that “three boats without teams belonging to the Ukrainian army were spotted in the northern part of the Black Sea on Tuesday at around four o’clock.”
It indicated that a missile strike targeted the site where these drones were monitored, without providing further details.
