A Russian military website reported that battles are continuing for control of two areas in the northwest of the Ukrainian city of Pakhmut, noting that Wagner's forces are fighting a street war in a number of neighborhoods of the city.

Wagner forces continue to advance in the southern areas of the city, especially in the Avangard Stadium area, while bloody battles are taking place for control of the Krasnoye area southwest of the city.

According to the site, the Russian forces continue to surround the city of "Avdievka" from the north and south with the bombing of the fortification sites of the Ukrainian forces inside the city, and Russian forces control the city of Novopakhmutka, located north of the city of Avdiivka.

On the other hand, the pro-Russian Donetsk authorities said that 4 civilians were wounded in the continuous Ukrainian shelling on the city and province of Donetsk, and pointed out that Ukrainian forces shelled on Thursday 5 residential neighborhoods, in the city center, with more than 70 shells.

Kamikaze attack

Also in Pakhmut, Donetsk's pro-Russian forces released a video of what they said was the moment Ukrainian military targets were destroyed using kamikaze suicide drones. The footage shows the moment the drones carried out attacks on Ukrainian military sites and targets and destroyed them.

Media outlets close to the Russian Defense Ministry published a video that they said documented direct clashes and the capture of Ukrainian positions by Russian forces in an unspecified location. The video shows small arms clashes on a Ukrainian forces post and deaths.

Early on Friday, Ukraine's military said 1020,24 Russian soldiers had been killed in the past <> hours in unsuccessful attacks on Liman, Avdievka, Marinka and Shakhtarsky.

The army added that Ukrainian forces repelled attacks in all the cities mentioned, as part of 80 Russian attacks that Ukrainian defenders managed to repel over the past day.

Missile Bombardment

Not far from Pakhmut, five people were killed in a Russian strike on a humanitarian aid centre in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostyantynivka.

Emergency services said the town of Kostyantyevka was hit by rocket fire overnight, hitting a one-story building, killing three women and two men.

The prosecutor's office said via Telegram that the women whose bodies were recovered from the rubble had previously been evacuated from the areas of Bakhmut, Chasev Iyar and Obitne, which were hit hard by the fighting.

The prosecutor's office said a shell from a Russian S-300 anti-aircraft launcher hit the building housing the center and another landed next to it.

In another attack, a woman was killed and four other civilians were wounded in artillery shelling on the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region (south), according to the prosecutor's office. Homes, power lines and gas were damaged by the shelling, authorities said.


Zelensky rushes weapons

On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that it is unacceptable to delay the supply of weapons to his country, and considered during a speech to the European Council meeting that - what he called - "delay" in supplying his country with long-range missiles is already large.

In a joint statement on Thursday, European leaders said the EU would step up efforts "to help meet Ukraine's urgent military and defense needs" and welcomed an agreement to send one million artillery shells to Kiev next year.

This comes at a time when Norwegian military authorities published photos of the dispatch of 8 German-made Leopard-2 tanks and other military munitions to Ukraine, as part of the so-called NATO tank alliance formed to support Kiev.

To date, in addition to Norway, this alliance includes Germany, Poland, Portugal and Canada to send 48 Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine.

The Norwegian armed forces said they were training Ukrainian soldiers to use tanks in Poland.

The Slovak Ministry of Defense announced the delivery of the first four MiG-4 fighter jets to Ukraine, adding that it would deliver more aircraft in the coming weeks.

Crawling to Kiev

In Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the National Security Council, said it was President Vladimir Putin who could determine when the special military operation in Ukraine would end.

He added that Russian troops could not be ruled out going to Kiev or Lviv in Ukraine, and that his country was not fighting the Ukrainian regime but the NATO army.

Russia's Interfax news agency quoted Medvedev as saying on Friday that Moscow does not plan to enter into a direct conflict with NATO and that it is interested in resolving the Ukrainian crisis through talks, but warned that any Ukrainian attempt to seize Crimea would constitute a justification for Russia to use "absolutely any weapon" against Kiev in response.

Medvedev considered that the world has changed radically, noting that "the dictates of the Anglo-Saxon countries have come to an end and the era of regional agreements such as BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is coming."

Earlier, Medvedev warned of the repercussions of continuing to supply Ukraine with weapons, stressing that this increases the risk of nuclear war.