#kropyvnytskyi

“At least two people were killed in the Donetsk town of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, when a five-story building collapsed after a Russian missile strike.

“Today, the rescuers of the Toretsk garrison, during emergency rescue operations on the destroyed part of a five-story residential building in the city of Toretsk, discovered and pulled out the bodies of two dead persons (one man and one woman),” the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said.”-via The Guardian

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“The Ukrainian military has conceded that Russian forces have been able to make small gains near the Donetsk towns of Soledar and Vershyna in eastern Ukraine.

Russia has been making a push in that area of the Donbas for the past several weeks but with limited gains.

According to Thursday evening’s update from Ukraine’s General Staff, other attempts by Russian forces to “carry out assaults in the direction of the settlements of Yakovlivka, Bakhmut and Semyhiria failed.” “The enemy units retreated here with losses,” it said.

The Ukrainian military continued to report intense long-range attacks with artillery, missiles and air strikes across most of the frontline.”-via CNN

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“Russian missiles have struck the hangars of an aviation enterprise in Kropyvnytskyi, killing five and injuring at least 25 others, according to the head of the Kirovohrad regional administration, Andriy Raikovych. The injured include military personnel.

“Five people were killed as a result of missile strike that occurred in Kropyvnytskyi at 12.22pm. Another 25 people were injured, of whom 12 are military personnel and 13 civilians,” Raikovych said in a briefing reported by Ukrinform.

Kropyvnytskyi is to the north of Mykolaiv.”-via The Guardian

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The British defence ministry has published a map suggesting that Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the Kherson region is growing stronger, in the ministry’s latest defence intelligence update on the war in Ukraine.

Text via The Guardian, map from Twitter

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The mayor of Ukraine’s second biggest city, Kharkiv, said no area in the city was “safe”.

Igor Terekhov told AFP:

The Russian aggressors are trying to turn Kharkiv into a pitiful city, like the ones they have in Russia.

But they won’t succeed. And, as you see, the people of Kharkiv are defending their city, weapons in hand.

We have nine districts in the city and they are all being bombed with varying intensity and at different times. So you can’t say anywhere in Kharkiv is safe.

Yes, it is safe in the shelters and it is safe in the metro.

But there is no district, no place in the city, where you can claim it is totally safe.

By the end of March, almost a third of Kharkiv’s residents had left the besieged city, fleeing to towns and cities further west.

Last week, shelling killed three people, including a 13-year-old boy, adding to a toll that Terekhov said was in the “many hundreds”.