Oleksandr Syrsky, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces, said on Sunday that the troops defending the town of Chasiv Yar had received additional weapons. The day before, he had affirmed that the situation on the eastern front had “considerably deteriorated” Russian soldiers were intensifying their pressure towards Chassiv Yar, he said.
Seizing it would offer Russian soldiers a chance to advance in the region, he added. In recent weeks, the Russian army has also increasingly bombarded the border region of Kharkiv, where the city of the same name is located, the commander- in-chief said. The head of the Russian occupation administration in the southern region of Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, said Sunday that separate Ukrainian strikes killed two people and injured a third in several villages in this area. The Russian drone also killed one person on Sunday morning in the neighboring Sumy region, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office.