At least six people have been killed and 19 wounded by Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, including one targeting the port of Odessa, as Ukrainian forces claim small gains on the front lines.
In Odessa, in the south, three people were killed in a cruise missile attack Calibr that reached a commercial warehouse, Sergei Bratchuk, spokesman for the port city’s military administration, said on Telegram.
Seven people were injured, “there may be people under the rubble,” the mayor of Odessa, Genadi Trujanov, said in a statement.
On Tuesday six people, including four rangers, were killed when the vehicle they were traveling in was hit by Russian shelling in northeastern Ukraine, near the border between the two countries, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said.
kyiv and Moscow exchange conflicting versions of the Ukrainian counteroffensive
On Tuesday, a Russian missile attack killed twelve people in Krivoy Rog, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the center of the country.
Moscow has intensified its attacks on major Ukrainian cities in recent weeks as kyiv launches a counter-offensive with Western-supplied weapons aimed at retaking Russian-occupied territories.
Ukraine says the counteroffensive is advancing, but Putin said his army was inflicting “catastrophic” losses on enemy forces.
Over the past three days, the Ukrainians recaptured about 3 km2 of territory and advanced up to 1.4 km in various areas of the front, a member of the Ukrainian General Staff, Andrei Kovaliev, said today.
Russia for the first time on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the capture of German Leopard tanks and American Bradley armored vehicles, supplied by the Western allies.
