Russia's armed invasion of Ukraine has been going on for 1,060 days. Three people were killed in the Russian attack on Kiev, and 10 people were injured in the attack on Zaporizhia. The Zaporozhian cathedral was also seriously damaged. The Ukrainians, in turn, attacked a fuel base in Russia's Tula Oblast. Analysts of the Ukrainian DeepState project, which monitors the situation on the front, report on the progress of Russian troops in the Donetsk region. We summarize what happened in and around Ukraine over the last 24 hours.
> The Russians attacked Zaporozhye in the southeast on Saturday Ukraine. One person was killed and at least 11 were injured, said the head of the region's regional authorities, Ivan Fedorov. As a result of the attack, Saint Andrew's Cathedral was damaged.
Damaged Saint Andrew's Cathedral after the Russian attack on ZaporizhiaReuters
> On the night from Friday to Saturday Russia carried out missile attack on Kyiv. The strikes of Russian missiles destroyed, among others, entering one of the metro stations and damaged a water supply, cutting off some residents of the central part of Kiev from water supplies. Fires broke out in the city, including: cars parked on the streets. Three people died and three were injured.
Lukyanivska metro station in Kiev after the attack by Russian forces SERGEY DOLZHENKO/PAP/EPA
Night attack on Kyiv. Report by Oleh BileckiTVN24
> Drones from Ukrainian military intelligence hit a fuel base in Russia's Tula Oblast. There were at least ten blows during the attack, the media reported, citing intelligence sources. Tula Oblast is located south of Moscow. There are also reports of an attack on a fuel base in the Kaluga Oblast.
> About a thousand people in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, protested, demanding information about soldiers and civilians who are missing or are still alive and in Russian captivity. According to the organizers, there may be at least 50,000 such people. The authorities in Kiev do not publish data on the number of their prisoners. It is estimated that about 8,000 people are in captivity in Russia. Ukrainians – the BBC recently reported.
Action in Kiev PAP/Vladyslav Musiienko
> The Ukrainian military group Khortytsia stated that the Russians did not capture Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Oblast, which is an important logistics hub of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and has been under attack by enemy forces for months. “Information about the presence of the enemy in Pokrovsk is being spread in some media and social networks. This information is not true,” the group assured on Telegram.
> Analysts of the Ukrainian DeepState project, which monitors the situation on the front, report on the progress of Russian troops in the Donetsk region. Their latest report said enemy forces had advanced towards six villages. The most important of them is the town of Velyka Novosilka with a population of 5,000, located near the administrative border with the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts and considered an important bastion and logistics hub of the defense forces in the south of the Donetsk oblast. According to soldiers of the 48th Independent Artillery Brigade fighting in this sector, if Velykaya Novosilka is captured, Russian forces will have an open road for further offensives in several directions: north from the Donetsk Oblast towards the city of Pokrovsk and west towards the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts.
PAP, Reuters, NV, tvn24.pl
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