Rocket fire inflicted new damage in Ukraine Sunday with pro-Kremlin officials blaming Kyiv for an attack that hit the mayors office in separatist-c
Rocket fire inflicted new damage in Ukraine Sunday, with pro-Kremlin officials blaming Kyiv for an attack that hit the mayor’s office in separatist-controlled Donetsk, while Ukrainian authorities said Russian missiles hit a city across from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, wounding six people.
The mayor’s building in Donetsk, part of the Ukrainian region Russia recently claimed as its own, was seriously damaged, with rows of blown-out windows and a partially collapsed ceiling. Nearby cars were burned out.
There were no immediate reports of casualties. The Kyiv government did not claim responsibility for the attack or comment on it.
Ukraine said the attack near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, aside from the injuries, also damaged five power lines, gas pipelines, and several civilian businesses and residential buildings.
Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of firing at and around the plant. It is controlled by Russia but continues to be operated by Ukrainian technicians.
Fighting continued elsewhere as well, with Kyiv saying that Moscow shelled civilian settlements along the front line in the eastern Kharkiv and Luhansk regions. Ukraine said ‘active hostilities’ continued in the southern Kherson region, another key area where Ukraine has advanced in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, Russia said its air defenses in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine shot down ‘a minimum’ of 16 Ukrainian missiles, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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