Russians attack Kramatorsk with missile and Chernihiv Oblast with rockets
The Russian military attacked Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Chernihiv oblasts on May 14, with local authorities reporting on the aftermath of the enemy strikes.
Kherson Oblast was shelled 86 times with a total of 381 rounds fires with heavy artillery, tanks and aircraft, the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Prokudin said.
The city of Kherson has come under enemy attack four times in the past 24 hours.
Six people were killed and three more injured by the Russian attacks in the region.
In Kharkiv Oblast, the occupiers used artillery, mortars and aircraft to attack settlements in the oblast’s Kupyansk and Chuhuiv districts in the past day.
Two civilians were killed due to Russian attacks there.
Two houses were damaged and caught fire in Podoly village in Kupyansk District.
Meanwhile, Russia has launched missiles at Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast twice over the last day.
A residential building was destroyed by one Russian attack. Luckily, there were no casualties as its residents had been evacuated, the head of Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported on Telegram.
However, three people were injured in Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast when Russian shelling damaged seven multi-storey residential buildings in the town.
Two people were injured, ten houses, seven multi-storey buildings and a school were damaged in Kostiantynivka, southwest of the front-line town of Bakhmut, where the Ukrainian army is holding up advancing Russian forces.
In other Russian attacks, a person was injured near Lysychansk and a house damaged near Siversk.
A total of seven locals were injured in the region in the past 24 hours.
Russian invasion forces also attacked areas bordering Russia in Chernihiv Oblast. Russia shelled a settlement with Grad multiple rocket launchers there in the early hours.
Operational Command North reported 16 hits in the village of Yelino from 6.30 a.m. to 7.10 a.m. Reports of casualties among the locals are being verified. The shelling damaged civilian infrastructure and set fire to a private house.
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