Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others in a day, the office of Ukraine's president reported Friday as the country worked to recover from an earlier wave of Russian missile strikes and drone attacks.
The new casualties included the deaths of at least two civilians in the southern city of Kherson, which Ukrainian troops recaptured in November, and two more in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province. The missiles and self-propelled drones Russian forces fired Thursday hit deeper into Ukrainian territory, killing at least 11 people.The bombardment followed announcements by the United States and Germany of plans to ship powerful tanks to help Ukraine defend itself.
Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko of the eastern Donetsk region said the Russian military used phosphorus munitions in shelling the village of Zvanivka. The village is located about 20 kilometers north of Bakhmut, a city that has become the focus of a gruelling battle in recent months. The shelling also damaged apartment buildings and two schools in the nearby town of Vuhledar, Kyrylenko said.
Further south, Russian troops resumed shelling the town of Nikopol, across the Dnieper from the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, damaging apartment buildings, gas pipelines, power lines and a bakery, officials said. The Ukrainian southern and eastern regions that Russia declared as part of its territory four months ago -- Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson -- will take place "in the near future," Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade said. The move comes as part of what the ministry called the "gradual synchronization" of Russian legislation after the "admission of the four subjects.
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