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Today, Saturday, the head of the Military Administration of the Donetsk region in southern Ukraine, Pavlo Kirilenko, announced that a civilian was killed, while 11 others were wounded, in a bombing launched by Russian forces on the region last night.
"On April 28, 2023, the Russians killed one civilian in the Donetsk region, specifically in Toritsk, while 11 people were injured of varying degrees," Kirilenko said in statements, reported by the official Ukrainian news agency "Ukrainform".
The Ukrainian official stated that it is now impossible to count the exact number of victims in the towns of Mariupol and Volnovaka, pointing out that the Russian attacks yesterday caused damage to residential homes and one of the infrastructure goals in the Donetsk region. One civilian was reported injured.
Today, Saturday, the Ukrainian army announced that the death toll of Russian soldiers has risen to 190,040 since the start of the military operation on February 24, 2022.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated, according to the news agency (Ukrinform), that during this period Russia also lost 3,697 tanks, 7,184 armored vehicles, 2,908 artillery systems, 543 multiple rocket launcher systems, 294 air defense systems, and 308 air defense systems. combat aircraft, 294 helicopters, 18 warships, as well as 5,836 vehicles and fuel tanks, in addition to 355 special equipment.
For its part, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated today, Saturday, that the Ukrainian forces managed to repel 48 Russian attacks during the past 24 hours, in the regions of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka and Liman.
The authority added - according to the Ukrainian news agency "Ukrinform" - that during the past 24 hours, the Russian forces carried out 48 attacks, Bakhmut and Marinka are still in the focus of offensive actions. Where the Russians are concentrated, units of the missile and artillery forces hit four command posts and an ammunition depot.
The Ukrainian General Staff indicated that the Russian forces bombed facilities and buildings using missiles. As a result, there were deaths and injuries among civilians.
For its part, the regional military administration of the Kherson region indicated that Russian forces bombed Kherson 33 times during the past 24 hours.
The head of the administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, stated that the Russian forces bombed the area with 177 shells, indicating that the bombing resulted in the death of one person and the wounding of six others, indicating that the Russian shelling targeted residential areas, indicating that Russia used heavy artillery, tanks and drones to attack the area. Pointing out that 73 people were evacuated from the areas liberated from Russia in Kherson.
On the other hand, the representative office of the Donetsk region in the "Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Cases Related to Ukrainian War Crimes" reported that the Ukrainian forces bombed the city of Donetsk and its environs 47 times during the past day, and fired 259 shells and missiles, killing 9 civilians and injuring 17 others.
The office stated - according to the "Russia Today" news channel - that the artillery targeted the Gorlovka axis with 21 shelling operations with 155 mm shells, and on the Yasinavata axis, the artillery targeted with 155, 152 and 122 mm caliber shells with 5 shelling operations, and on the Volnovakhsky axis, there are five Artillery shells 155, 152 and 122 mm.
For his part, the governor of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvogaev, confirmed that a fuel tank caught fire in the Cossack Bay area of the city, which is located in the Crimean peninsula, without causing any civilian casualties.
Razvogaev said: "Initial data indicate that the fire may have been caused by a drone attack, indicating that the civilian facilities are safe, explaining that the area of the fire is about 1,000 square meters, stressing that the situation is under control and that firefighting teams are working to extinguish it.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that its units destroyed 3 support points of the Ukrainian forces in the Oglidar region, southwest of Donetsk; As a result, 15 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.
And the Russian defense added, according to (Russia Today) news channel, today, Saturday, that its forces were able to target one of the sites of the Azov battalion fighters, north of Donetsk.
Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 50 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed in thwarting an attempt to deliver Ukrainian reinforcements to the city of Donetsk.
Source: Middle East News Agency