On Monday, the Russian military confirmed that it fired rockets at the small town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region on Sunday.

According to Moscow, the blow was a success: "More than 300 nationalists were destroyed" in the process.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian media throughout the day updated the number of dead recovered from the destroyed multi-storey apartment building.

In the afternoon it was 20. Dozens were still suspected under the rubble.

In his speech on Sunday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the rocket attack on Chasiv Yar as another example of Russian war crimes against the civilian population.

Reinhard Veser

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According to the Ukrainian General Staff, dozens of towns along the entire front line are under heavy artillery fire, while Russian troops on the ground have apparently made few advances on the ground for several days after conquering the entire Luhansk region.

This applies not only to the area around Sloviansk, which is presumed to be the next target for Russian troops.

Numerous smaller towns were also hit along the front in the Zaporizhia and Cherson regions.

According to the local authorities, several residential buildings were hit during attacks on Kharkiv on Monday night and Monday morning;

three people were killed and more than 30 injured.

In addition, the Ukrainians reported rocket attacks on Mykolaiv and the Odessa region.

Ukrainians continue attacks on Russian camps

Meanwhile, the Ukrainians continued the series of attacks on Russian ammunition and fuel depots and staffs far behind the front lines, made possible by modern weapons systems supplied by the West.

The Ukrainian governor of the now fully occupied Luhansk region said a Russian ammunition dump in Luhansk, about 80 kilometers from the front, was destroyed on Sunday.

Also on Sunday, according to Russian media reports, a Russian National Guard base in Cherson was destroyed.

In addition, strong explosions were reported from Melitopol during the night on Monday.

Russian sources also confirm that the Ukrainian attacks are obviously causing painful losses to the occupying forces.

Great-Russian nationalist and former Russian intelligence officer Igor Girkin, who, under the alias Strelkov, was one of the leaders of Russian fighters at the start of aggression against Ukraine in 2014, recently listed several accurate hits by Ukrainian forces in his live stream.

Against this background, the statements of the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, who said in an interview with the British “Times” that President Zelenskyy had instructed the army leadership to draw up a plan for the reconquest of southern Ukraine, should also be seen.

Resnikov told the newspaper that he was now busy trying to get the western allies to supply them with the necessary weapons.

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereshchuk has repeatedly called on the population of the occupied areas in southern Ukraine to flee in recent weeks, as heavy fighting is to be expected when the area is liberated.

Currently, however, there is no safe way to leave these areas for the Ukrainian-controlled areas.

The occupation authorities officially banned “departure” in May.

Driving across the front line has been very risky before, according to the accounts of people who have taken this route.

That is why Vereshchuk had already advised in June to flee via Crimea if necessary.