UKRAINE RECAPTURED VILLAGE IN KHERSON; DEATH TOLL FROM RUSSIAN ROCKET ATTACK RISES TO 19

Mon 11 July 2022:

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Ivanivka in the southern Russian-occupied region of Kherson, a Ukrainian infantry brigade said on Monday.

“The only thing left of the Russian occupiers in Ivanivka are horrible memories and ‘dead’ military equipment,” it said.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the claim. There is more than one village of Ivanivka in the area. One of them is located along the front line.

Ukraine says Chasiv Yar death toll has risen to 19

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine says the death toll from Russian missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar has now risen to 19 people.

Rescuers had made voice contact with two other people under the rubble, the department added.

Rescuers on Sunday evening were working to recover more than 20 people who were trapped after the residential building collapsed from what officials said was an Uragan rocket attack.

Ukraine’s army holding back Russian forces in village near Sloviansk: Governor

Ukraine’s army has trapped Russian forces in the area of the village of Bilohorivka, about 50km (30 miles) east of Sloviansk, from where they are shelling the surrounding settlements and carrying out air attacks, the governor of Luhansk has said.

Serhiy Haidai said that Ukraine’s army was holding Russia’s forces from advancing further and that Moscow’s talk of the imminent capture of Sloviansk and Bakhmut was at this point, “just words”.

The Donetsk regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said that a Russian missile had struck Druzhkivka, a town behind the front line, and reported shelling of other population centres.

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