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Britain’s defense ministry said on Sunday that Russia was stepping up targeting of civilian infrastructure amid a battering counterattack by the Ukrainian military.
“Facing setbacks on the front lines, Russia has likely expanded the areas it is poised to strike in order to directly undermine the morale of the Ukrainian people and government,” Britain’s intelligence agency said. It said in an update that it was attacked by Russia. civilian targets, “even if they would probably have no direct military effect.”
Parts of the Donetsk, Kharkov, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine suffered a power outage last week as Ukrainian forces re-entered towns and cities occupied by Russia. Russia ‘trying to take light from people’ [and] “Heat” by attacking critical infrastructure when they retreat.
A shelling at a psychiatric hospital in Russia’s Kharkiv region has killed four doctors and injured two patients, governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Saturday.
About 450 bodies were recovered this week from a mass grave in the city of Izm, northeast of Kharviv.
“We are discovering new scenes of atrocities and updating evidence of war crimes,” Yury Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s Defense Minister, told Fox News Digital over the weekend. “Men, women, children. Some were exhumed with their hands tied behind their backs.”
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A hospital was also hit in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, officials said.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski and those sent by the Vatican to Urakain for humanitarian aid were shot dead in Zaporizhia this week.
“For the first time in my life…I didn’t know where to run…because running is not enough. I have to know where to go,” he told Vatican News.
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Meanwhile, Zelensky promised to continue the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“After a string of wins, it may look like there is some lull, but this is not lull,” Zelenskiy said on Sunday. “This is preparation for the next series, for the next series of words that are so important to all of us and absolutely must be heard.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.