INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian strikes on military facilities and residential buildings across war-scarred Ukraine Thursday left several dead in attacks President
Volodymyr Zelensky described as "missile terrorism."The deadliest attacks, which struck the central Kirovohrad region, came as the country
was marking its first Day Of Ukraine Statehood that was announced by Zelensky earlier.Russia's invasion has morphed into a grueling war of
attrition and frontline artillery battles
Both sides are striking targets behind the frontlines to dent the other's ability to fight a protracted conflict."Twenty-five people have
been transferred to medical facilities and are receiving treatment
Five are dead," the region's governor Andriy Raikovich said in a video on his social media.The Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted Raikovich
as saying that there were 12 servicemen among the wounded.City officials said the attacks on the region's administrative center,
Kropyvnytskyi, damaged "aviation equipment," aircraft, and nearby buildings, Interfax-Ukraine reported.Kropyvnytskyi lies some 300
kilometers south of the capital Kyiv and three people, including one Ukrainian serviceman, were killed in Russian strikes on railway and
military infrastructure over the weekend.Russian strikes reported earlier on Thursday meanwhile destroyed one building at a military base
north of Kyiv.Senior Ukrainian military official Oleksiy Gromov said the missiles that hit the town 30 kilometers north of Kyiv were fired
on the central Dnipro region, its governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on social media."It's a troubled morning
Again there is missile terror
second-largest city of Kharkiv, and have since turned their attention to capturing the eastern Donbas region.There, in the town of
In total two people died and three were rescued," regional emergency services said.They added separately that the toll from strikes on a
hotel one day earlier in the Donbas town of Bakhmut under Ukrainian control had increased to four.AFP journalists in the area reported that
Bakhmut and nearby Siversk had also been experiencing electricity cuts following strikes in the area.While fighting since February has
centered on the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine's forces are also building momentum in their counter-offensive for the southern Kherson
building was destroyed following "extensive" shelling, governor Vitaliy Kim said.
