4:55 am: Eastern and southern Ukraine under Russian bombs
The southern and eastern regions of Ukraine - where the Russian assaults are concentrated - are under heavy fire from bombs.
"The enemy is intensifying its offensive. The occupiers are carrying out strikes practically in all directions", with particularly intense activity in the Kharkiv and Donbass regions, underlined the Ukrainian general staff.
According to him, the Russian army is trying to prevent the transfer of Ukrainian forces from the north to the east.
According to the governor of Kharkiv, Oleg Synegoubov, five people were killed Thursday in bombardments on the city and its region.
Russian troops, who were trying to advance from Izium towards "Brazhkivka, Dovhenky and Velyka Komyshuvakha", suffered "heavy losses and were forced to retreat", he assured on Telegram.
In the Donbass, in Lyman, "the situation is very difficult, the whole town is surrounded," Andriï Pankov, head of the administrative region of Kramatorsk, told AFP.
According to him, nearly half of the municipal territory is occupied by Russian tanks and columns, coming from the north by Izioum, captured previously.
With AFP
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