A Russian missile hit the town of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on Wednesday night killing three civilians, the UNIAN agency reported. According to the latest data, at least 20 people were injured. One of the eight residential buildings was destroyed by the missile. People could be found under the rubble police said. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote that this is not a replay of the past. It is a daily reality of our country - a country with absolute evil on its borders.
Russia is in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, officials said Wednesday, in what Kyiv suspects is preparation for an offensive as the first anniversary of Moscow's invasion approaches, according to AP reports.
The Kremlin s forces were expelling residents near the Russian-held parts of the front line so they can't tell Ukrainian artillery forces about Russian troop deployments, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said.
The Russian troops are going to be transferred to the region and they are ready for something on the eastern front in February, according to Serhiy Haidai.
The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported that Russian forces were concentrating in the neighboring province of Donetsk, especially in a bid to capture the key city of Bakhmut. The Institute for the Study of War predicted an imminent Russian offensive in the coming months. Ukraine Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov said that Ukrainian lives will be saved by a sophisticated air-defense radar that France is providing, which is powerful enough to spot incoming missiles and exploding drones in the skies over all of Ukraine's capital city and its surrounding region.