Russian artillery strikes 400 times at Ukrainian positions: Zelensky

Without providing further details, Zelensky added that troops in the south were “consistently and very deliberately degrading the potential of the occupiers.”

According to President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address, Russian soldiers are hammering Ukrainian positions with artillery fire and fired about 400 strikes on Sunday in the eastern region alone.

This month, Russia withdrew its troops from the southern city of Kherson and relocated some of them to fortify positions in the Donbas industrial region’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk areas.

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“The fiercest battles, as before, are in the Donetsk region. Although there were fewer attacks today due to worsening weather, the amount of Russian shelling unfortunately remains extremely high,” Zelensky said.

“In the Luhansk region, we are slowly moving forward while fighting. As of now, there have been almost 400 artillery attacks in the east since the start of the day,” he continued.

Without providing further details, Zelensky added that troops in the south were “consistently and very deliberately degrading the potential of the occupiers.”

Late on Sunday, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy director of Zelensky’s administration, said that Russian forces had fired at a house in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine.

“There may be people under the rubble. Emergency services are working at the scene,” Tymoshenko said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kherson City, the region’s recently retaken capital, continues to be without running water, electricity, or heating.

The second time in four days that Ukraine has claimed to have inflicted significant casualties in a single incident, Kyiv reported on Saturday that approximately 60 Russian soldiers had been killed in a long-range artillery attack in the south.