KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Eleven more people were killed Saturday in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk province, according to regional governor Vadym Filashkin. Five young people were among the dead and eight others were wounded in the attack on the Pokrovsk district, he said. saying.
The Ukrainian military claimed on Saturday to have effectively attacked the Saki army air base, west of the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula.
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“Saki Airfield! All targets were hit!” Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram. He also posted a photograph that gave the impression of showing the airfield, although it was not easy to identify the image.
Russian officials have commented on the alleged attack, however, the Russian Defense Ministry said in the early hours of Saturday that it had managed to shoot down four Ukrainian missiles over the peninsula overnight. Later on Saturday, the ministry announced that its air defense forces had shot down six anti-ship missiles over the Black Sea.
Traffic was temporarily suspended for the third day in a row on a bridge connecting the peninsula, which Moscow illegally seized in 2014, with Russia’s southern Krasnodar region. This stretch was a source link for Russia’s war effort.
In Russia, local officials in Belgorod — about 40 kilometers from the Ukrainian border — said an “air target” had been shot down as it approached the city. The Dec. 30 Ukrainian strikes in Belgorod killed 25 people, officials said, and rockets and drone strikes continued that week.
As Russians prepared to celebrate Orthodox Christmas, Christmas Eve masses in Belgorod were canceled due to the “operational situation,” Mayor Valentin Demidov said.
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