The Russian army has bombed the Ukrainian north-eastern Sumy Oblast 60 times in the last 24 hours : Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky said, explaining that the rural communities of Znob-Novhorodske, Shalyhine, Bilopillia and Krasnopillia have been hit.
The eastern city of Bakhmut , in the Donetsk region, was also targeted overnight, according to the morning report of the Ukrainian General Staff quoted by UNIAN.
"In the direction of Bakhmut, the Russians bombed the districts of Berestovo, Bilogorivka, Soledar, Pokrovsky, Bakhmut, Opytny, Veselaya Dolyna, Vershina, Travnevo, Kodem, Toretsk and Shumy. They launched missiles and air strikes on Toretsk and Raisky and Berestovo ", the report states.
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7.40 pm - First Russian soldier died in Ukraine
Anastasia Savitskaya, corporal of the city of Volgograd, in southwestern Russia, is the first Russian female soldier to be killed in the war in Ukraine. Local media reports. News website v1.ru quoted Volgograd veterans council chairman Alexander Strukov as saying the corporal died during Putin's so-called "special military operation". Savitskaya "is the first military woman to die," Strukov said, without elaborating on the circumstances of her death. The Daily Mail reports that Savitskaya, 35, married and mother of two, has been called a "true hero", and her funeral took place today in her native Volgograd.
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Kiev, the Russian offensive near Kharkiv and Bakhmut rejected
Ukraine rejects the Russian offensive near Kharkiv and Bakhmut. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff, Kiev repulsed Russian offensives near the village of Dementiivka, just north of Kharkiv, and the villages of Vesela Dolyna, Yakovlivka and Vershyna east of Bakhmut in Donetsk oblast. The Kyiv Independent reports it.
