Russian troops withdrawn from Exclusion Zone
According to the Ukrainian general staff, Russian troops have also been withdrawn from the exclusion zone around the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and from the adjacent areas in Belarus. Apparently they were to be transferred to the Russian Belgorod region, from where the advance to Kharkiv would take place. However, the British military assumed that the explosions in a fuel depot and an ammunition depot in Belgorod would slow down supplies to the Russian troops off Kharkiv.
Cities under attack
On the night of Saturday, Russian troops again attacked several large cities in the south of the country with rockets. Two or three heavy explosions were heard in the city of Dnipro, the Ukrainian portal Ukrajinska Pravda reported. The city of Poltava in the center of the country was also attacked. A little later, Russia announced the shelling of two military airfields near Dnipro and Poltava.
According to the regional governor of the Poltava region, infrastructure facilities were hit in the central Ukrainian city of the same name. The city of Kremenchuk was also attacked, writes Dmitri Lunin. There was initially no information about possible victims.
The area around the town of Kryvyi Rih was also shelled. A gas station caught fire, said the head of the local military administration, Olexander Wilkul. According to him, the Russian forces used Grad (Hagel) multiple rocket launchers. Vikul also said that the Kryvyi Rih district and the Dnepropetrovsk region as a whole are stable in the hands of the Ukrainian army.
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