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Russia says 771 Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal surrendered in last 24 hours, taking total to 1,730
The Ukrainian navy reported on Thursday that Russian forces making an attempt to interrupt by to Sloviansk, in japanese Ukraine’s Donetsk area, had suffered losses and retreated.
Regardless of artillery and missile assaults by Russian forces on a large entrance over the previous 24 hours, there are not any indicators they’ve taken new territory.
“The enemy performed battle exercise in Velyka Komyshuvakha space with the help of artillery; had no success, suffered important losses in some areas and was compelled to withdraw to beforehand occupied positions,” the Basic Employees of the Ukrainian armed forces claimed in its day by day replace.
There was preventing within the Velyka Komyshuvakha space since late April — for the reason that Russians took management of Izium and tried to push towards Sloviansk — however the entrance traces have modified little.
In Luhansk: On the opposite fundamental entrance, within the elements of Luhansk area the Ukrainians nonetheless maintain, Russian plane have attacked a number of villages, in keeping with the Basic Employees.
Ukrainian defenses had been holding across the industrial metropolis of Severodonetsk, and Russian assault operations within the Zolote space had been unsuccessful, it mentioned.
Serhii Hayday, head of the Luhansk navy administration, mentioned Severodonetsk had suffered essentially the most within the newest assaults and confirmed that 4 civilians had been killed on Wednesday.
Elsewhere: Different areas additionally reported Russian artillery and missile strikes in a single day. Within the Dnipropetrovsk area within the south, town navy administration in Kryvih Rih mentioned “there was enemy shelling alongside your entire line of contact through the night time.”
It mentioned there had been heavy shelling of residential areas of Velyka Kostromka, a city that lies some 20 miles south of Kryvih Rih that has been on the entrance traces for greater than a month.