Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian army claimed on Sunday, January 29, to have repelled an attack near the village of Blahodatne, located in the Donestk region. While the Russian regime has made the capture of the entire separatist region the main objective of the conflict, the front in southern Ukraine is not extinguished, with Russian bombardments on the city of Kherson and a strike attributed to the Ukrainian army by the authorities installed by Moscow in Zapororijjia. Here’s what to remember from the day.
Russian shelling in Kherson kills three, local authorities say
Russian shelling of residential areas in southern Ukrainian city of Kherson kills at least three and six wounded, including a nurse, local authorities said. “Enemy artillery hit the residential areas of the city”, said the regional administration on social networks. She added that a hospital, school, bus station, post office, bank and apartment buildings were hit.
The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has recently been much calmer than that in the eastern countries where fierce fighting is taking place. But the shelling on both sides never stopped and fighting resumed this week in the Zaporijjia region.
Pro-Russian authorities in Zaporizhia denounce a Ukrainian strike that left four dead
The head of the pro-Russian administration installed by Moscow in Zaporizhia, Evgueni Balitski, for his part accused Ukraine of having committed “a strike with Himar multiple rocket launchers against a railway bridge spanning the Molotchnaya River”.
“Four members of a railway brigade were killed, five were injured and are being treated medically”, he added. The bridge is in the villa of Svetlodinskoye, north of the city of Melitopol controlled by Russian forces. According to the same source, work was underway on this infrastructure.
kyiv claims to have repelled an attack near Blahodatne
The Ukrainian General Staff said in its daily statement that it repelled an attack near the village of Blahodatne and thirteen other localities in the Donestk region. But Evguéni Prigojine, leader of the private Russian paramilitary group Wagner, assured his side that he had taken control. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not confirmed at this stage.
Blahodatne is north of Bakhmout, a city coveted for many months by Moscow and where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Local governor Pavlo Kirilenko reported that five civilians had been killed in attacks in the Donetsk region over the past day, including one person in Bakhmout.