Ukraine Intensifies Strikes in opposition t Russian-managed Areas - The Wall street Journal

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Ukrainian artillery pounded Donetsk, the largest Russian-controlled metropolis in Donbas.

A Ukrainian missile assault on an ammunition warehouse possible came as a setback for Russia's assault on Severodonetsk.

Russian missiles hit Ukraine's 2d-biggest city, Kharkiv, as well as oil refineries in northeastern and vital areas.

Ukraine intensified artillery and missile strikes in opposition t the Russian-controlled ingredients of the Donbas location, focused on weapons depots and military bases as a way to stall a Russian offensive, whereas Moscow unleashed new salvoes of long-latitude missiles—some of them shot down through air defenses—on cities across Ukraine.

The metropolis of Donetsk, the greatest in Russian-controlled Donbas, this weekend came beneath the worst artillery barrages for the reason that the battle in japanese Ukraine begun in 2014. The strikes hit military amenities, based on video footage of burning ammunition depots posted on local social-media channels, but also damaged civilian infrastructure. The Russian-appointed mayor of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, whose workplace turned into also hit through the shelling, observed five civilians had been killed.