Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling of the year

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Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements over the last 24 hours – more than in any single day so far this year – Ukraine has said as its commander-in-chief warns the war with Russia is moving towards a new stage of static and attritional fighting, a phase that could allow Moscow to rebuild its military power.

It comes amid reports that North Korea has supplied Russia with two months’ worth of artillery shells.

 

The Russians have fired millions of shells on cities, towns and villages since invading in February 2022, reducing several settlements to rubble across the eastern part of Ukraine.

“Over the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 118 settlements in 10 regions,” Igor Klymenko, the Ukrainian interior minister, wrote on social media.

“This is the highest number of cities and villages that have come under attack since the start of the year.”

Ukraine also reported a Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk, a central industrial city. There were no casualties but it took almost 100 firefighters several hours to put out the resulting fire, Klymenko said. The overnight shelling in the north-eastern Kharkiv region killed one person, and another was killed in the southern Kherson region, local officials said.

Ukraine’s government and the west fear Russia will escalate its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure ahead of the cold winter, as it did last year.

 

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Heinous and criminal I hope some one rubs out Putin soon it breaks my heart the brave Ukrainian nation is suffering this man’s megalomania salva Ukraine 🇺🇦