A woman collects the belongings of the ruins in Sloviansk on June 1. (Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images)
The war in Ukraine has left at least 7 dead and 26 wounded in the last 24 hours, Ukrainian officials said.
This is where much of the struggle is taking place:
Donbas: The Ukrainian military says it has repulsed 13 enemy attacks on Donetsk and Luhansk, the two regions that make up Donbas, in the past 24 hours.
In northeastern Sloviansk, in the Lyman area, Russian forces tried to advance but “suffered losses and retreated,” an update of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff said.
“Most” of Severodonetsk, one of the last cities he held in Luhansk, has been taken by Russia, a Ukrainian military official said.
Two people were killed and two others were injured Wednesday in Mykolaiv, a southern city not far from the front line, after Russia “fired on residential neighborhoods” damaging two high-rise buildings and four homes. , said regional officials.
“We are being bombarded from all sides,” Vitalii Kim, head of the Mykolaiv regional military administration, said on Thursday.
Mykolaiv is not far from Kherson, which has been under Russian control since the beginning of the invasion. Kim said reports had surfaced that Russian forces in Kherson “have begun looting shops in Kherson” and “are taking everything out in the direction of Crimea,” in case Ukrainian forces retake the city.
Regional officials said the situation in Kherson is “tense stable” with “fighting and bombing” continuing. Many areas are “without electricity, water and gas” and need “medicine and humanitarian aid.”
Further west, south of Buh, six areas were targeted by mortars and artillery, and airstrikes were also launched from Mi-24 helicopters, regional officials said.
Zaporizhzhia: Two people received shrapnel wounds after Russian troops fired artillery on residential houses in the Polohy district, the Zaporizhzhia Military Administration said.
Northeastern Ukraine: Russia’s main efforts in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, were “focused on keeping the borders occupied,” the military said. Regional officials said a woman was found dead under the rubble of a school after a night bombing; one man was also injured. Six other civilians were also injured after two bombings in the southeast and northeast of Kharkiv were bombed.
Russian forces withdrew from the city in May, leaving behind evidence of possible atrocities.
Three civilians in Sumy, a city in northwest Kharkiv, were injured after a Russian plane “fired three missiles” around midnight during an airstrike, destroying one house and damaging several others.
Western Ukraine: In Lviv, the city in western Ukraine that houses countless internally displaced Ukrainians, five people were injured after Russia carried out a missile attack Wednesday night against the railways. Rail services have been affected.