MOSCOW: Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country, with Ukrainian officials saying that Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.
One person was killed and one more was wounded on Sunday morning by the shelling of Nikopol, a city in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhii Lysak reported. The shelling damaged four residential buildings, a vocational school and a water treatment facility.
In Kharkiv, one person was wounded after three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure overnight, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Ukrainian forces reportedly downed five drones four Shahed killer drones and one Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone over the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.