War briefing in Ukraine: Russian artillery fire kills three people in Kherson region, road accident in west claims 14 lives | Ukraine

Three civilians were killed in Russian artillery shelling in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Saturday. officials said. Two bodies were recovered from the rubble of a house that came under fire in the morning in a village near Beryslav, north of the city of Kherson, prosecutors said. An artillery attack in the evening killed one person in a village south of the city, the region’s governor, Oleksander Prokudin, said.

Russian night raids left more than 100,000 households in northern Ukraine without electricity and cut off the water supply to a regional capitalUkrainian authorities said on Saturday. The northern region of Sumy, which borders Russia, was plunged into darkness after Russian strikes damaged energy infrastructure late Friday, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said. Hours later, Ukrainian public broadcaster reported that Russian drones had attacked the provincial capital, also Sumy, and cut off water supplies by hitting power lines that feed the pumping system. Russian state news agency RIA quoted a local pro-Kremlin leader from the “underground” as saying Moscow’s forces had struck a factory producing rocket ammunition in the city. The claim could not be independently verified.

A fire broke out on a gas pipeline in CrimeaRussian officials said on Sunday, blaming an accident and saying there were no casualties. Online videos showed a large fire that allegedly followed one or more explosions in the Alushta district.

Russian air defense units shot down seven Ukrainian drones each in the southern regions of Belgorod and Kursk on the Ukrainian border on Saturday, officials and the military said. Russia’s Defense Ministry said seven drones were intercepted over the Belgorod region, which faces almost daily Ukrainian attacks. Alexei Smirnov, the governor of the Kursk region, further north and west, also reported that seven drones were shot down over his region. He said Ukrainian forces shelled about 10 villages during the day.

The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force said his forces had tricked Russian troops into using missiles against advanced models placed to look like military targets. Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram that the models represented fighter jets and a battery of surface-to-air missiles. They were placed at an airfield near the central city of Kriviy Rih and a district of the Black Sea port of Odessa. A video attached to Saturday’s post, described as footage from a Russian reconnaissance drone, showed Russian Iskander missiles attacking the depictions, according to Oleshchuk. “Air force personnel carried out passive defense measures!” he wrote.

In Ukraine’s eastern front region around Donetsk, eleven civilians were killed and 43 injured by Russian shelling. on Friday and into the night of Saturday, said the region’s governor, Vadym Filashkin. Five people died in the town of Selydove, southeast of Pokrovsk, the eastern city that has become a flashpoint on the front lines. The Ukrainian General Staff said on Saturday morning that Ukrainian and Russian forces had clashed 45 times near Pokrovsk the previous day. Hours later, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that his troops had captured a village about 30 km east of the city..

On Saturday, an oil truck collided with a minibus in western Ukraine, killing 14 peopleincluding a six-year-old child, and there was only one survivor, emergency services said. The report on Telegram was accompanied by images of an overturned vehicle in a corn field in the Rivne region. It said the survivor was in serious condition and was being treated for her injuries.

Japan has announced a joint project with Cambodia to share landmine clearance knowledge and technology with countries around the world, including Ukraine. As part of the Japan-Cambodia landmine initiative, “Japan will provide full support for humanitarian mine clearance in Ukraine,” said Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa in Phnom Penh. “Next week we will deliver a large mine clearance machine to Ukraine, and next month we will train Ukrainian personnel here in Cambodia how to operate the machine.”