Ukrainian military says it repelled additional than dozen attacks

Ukrainian military says it repelled additional than dozen attacks

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military said Monday that it had repelled additional than a dozen Russian attacks inside the country's the orient accompanied by every one one other accompanied by north, including attempts to go forward on answer cities inside the eastern manufacturing heartland known while the Donbas.

In its constant Facebook update, the military's general staff said Russian troops had attempted to push towards Kramatorsk, one of place of set of two greatest cities inside the eastern Donetsk province that convey on accompanied by to exist under Ukrainian control, nevertheless "they failed completely accompanied by every one one other accompanied by chaotically retreated to their foregoing positions."

In the same post, the military said Russian forces had staged an unsuccessful assault on Bakhmut, a planned town inside the Donetsk neighbourhood whose capture would pave the way for Russia to lay clasp of Kramatorsk accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the de facto Ukrainian administrative capital, Sloviansk.

The Donetsk neighbourhood is one of place of set of two provinces that build up the Donbas, where the fighting has mostly been focused inside recent months, since Kremlin forces retreated from around the capital, Kyiv.

Russian officials announced the filled capture of the Luhansk region, the following of the two, early last month, though its Ukrainian executive has repeatedly claimed that Kyiv's forces are holding not here inside a small area near the geographical boundary.

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In the same update, the military claimed that Russia had tried accompanied by every one one other accompanied by failed to shatter into with every one other accompanied by not here of Ukrainian defence lines inside the northern Kharkiv region, place of residence to Ukraine's second-largest city, nevertheless were "met harshly accompanied by every one one other accompanied by thrown back."

Meanwhile, the Russian FSB, the KGB's main successor agency, said that it had thwarted a "sabotage accompanied by every one one other accompanied by terrorist attack" on an lubricant pipeline inside Russia's southern Volgograd region, which it blamed on place of set of two Russian citizens colluding accompanied by Ukrainian safety forces.

The claims could not exist unswerving away verified.

Elsewhere, Russian accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Ukrainian officials traded additional accusations Monday concerning renewed shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear ability plant, accompanied by every one one side alleging that the other was inside ask in remittance of for the attacks that have raised fears of a catastrophe.

The press office of the Kremlin-backed management inside Enerhodar, the Russian-controlled city where the plant is located, told the Interfax agency that Ukrainian forces were carrying not here "massive shelling" of the facility, while well while Enerhodar's residential accompanied by every one one other accompanied by manufacturing areas.

According to the statement, the shelling came from nearby Nikopol, a Ukrainian-held city which faces the plant across the Dnieper River.

The mayor of Nikopol subsequent said that Russians were shelling Enerhodar themselves.

Mayor Yevhen Yevtushenko accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other municipal authorities inside Nikopol have repeatedly accused Russian troops stationed at the plant of shelling the city, knowing that Ukrainian forces there were unlikely to blaze back.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his call for fresh sanctions opposed to Moscow accompanied by every one one other accompanied by its nuclear manufacturing inside response to the situation. He described Russian forces' actions there while "nuclear blackmail" that may embolden malign actors worldwide.

As Russian forces kept up their artillery barrages around Ukraine, at least trio Ukrainian civilians were killed accompanied by every one one other accompanied by 20 others wounded, Ukrainian officials said.

The deaths accompanied by every one one other accompanied by 13 of the wounded were blamed on Russian shelling that hit towns accompanied by every one one other accompanied by villages inside the Donetsk region, geographical officials said.

In the country's second-largest city of Kharkiv, septet civilians were wounded by Russian shelling that hit residential buildings accompanied by every one one other accompanied by an area near a bus stop. Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Synyehubov said the wounded included a 80-year-old woman.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russian warplanes have struck Ukrainian armed strength positions inside the southern Kherson neighbourhood accompanied by every one one other accompanied by inside the Donetsk region. He added that the Russian air ability excessively hit a facility inside the Kharkiv region, killing at least 100 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by wounding 50 "mercenaries" from Poland accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Germany. His claims could not exist independently verified.

Speaking at the opening of an arms show outer external outside Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the military, which he said was "liberating the Donbas step by step."

He excessively vowed to expand arms sales to Russian allies, whom he praised for continuing to provide firm support to Moscow inside the face of Western pressure.

For its part, the Ukrainian military claimed to have destroyed additional than 10 Russian warehouses accompanied by ammunition accompanied by every one one other accompanied by military apparatus inside the past week.

In other developments Monday:

— Lawyers for American basketball celestial body Brittney Griner filed an appeal opposed to her nine-year Russian prison judgement for medicine possession, Russian report agencies reported. Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a two-time Olympic gold medal medal medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested inside February at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport following vape canisters containing cannabis lubricant were found inside her luggage.

— The Ukrainian parliament extended martial rules with every one other accompanied by regulations accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the country's general mobilization for another 90 days.

— Zelenskyy dismissed the heads of trio geographical branches of Ukraine's top safety agency, SBU, inside the Kyiv, Lviv accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Tarnopil regions. Zelenskyy's office didn't elaborate on the reasons behind the move. Last month, he dismissed SBU leader Ivan Bakanov accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a leader prosecutor, saying their departments had excessively numerous people who faced accusations of collaborating accompanied by the Russians.

— The trial of five European men captured inside eastern Ukraine got underway inside a court of rules and regulations of rules with every one other accompanied by regulations administered by Kremlin-backed separatists, Russian media reported.

Three of the five — a Swede, a Croat accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a Briton — could face the demise punishment over charges of serving while mercenaries accompanied by every one one other accompanied by "undergoing training inside order to seize power" under the laws of the self-proclaimed, unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic, Russian condition media reported.

The residual two, both British, face prison terms.

— A British military reconnaissance flat external outside violated Russia's airspace, the Russian defence management dividing said.

The management dividing said inside a statement that Russian air defence forces inside Russia's Arctic northwest had spotted the flat external outside heading towards the border from the way of the Barents Sea. A Russian fighter identified the aircraft while a British Air Force RC-135 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by forced it not here of Russian territory, the management dividing said.

— German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Berlin would not spine some fellow European countries that have called for an EU-wide go to place an extremity to issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens.

The nations backing such a ban speak that Russians should not exist intelligent to lay clasp of vacations inside Europe while Moscow wages war inside Ukraine. Finland accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Denmark want an EU decision accompanied by every one one other accompanied by some EU countries bordering Russia by that hour dated no indeed indeed longer matter visas to Russians.

"This is not the war of the Russian people. It is (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's war accompanied by every one one other accompanied by we have to exist extremely understandable on that topic," Scholz said.

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Ukrainian military says it repelled additional than dozen attacks