Russia continues to carry out rocket bombings in an attempt to “completely destroy the infrastructure and residential neighborhoods of Ukrainian cities,” said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Such attacks in the temporarily occupied areas of Kiev, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Kherson and Kharkiv violate the requirements of international humanitarian law and have seen Russian troops continue to terrorize civilians, officials said. “Houses are being shot at. “They were robbed, abducted and held hostage,” the report said. A total of seven Russian attacks were repulsed yesterday, with 12 tanks and 10 vehicles destroyed, officials said. The Ukrainian air force also reportedly hit 17 air targets on Monday, including eight aircraft, three helicopters, four UAVs and two missile fins. The Guardian could not confirm these allegations. Members of the pro-Russian troops appear near the besieged city of Mariupol on Monday. Photo: Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters An earlier report had suggested that Russian troops were “weakened, disoriented” and “cut off from the mainstream and mainstream forces”. “The command of the Russian occupation forces is trying to compensate for the reduction of the combat potential of the enemy units with indiscriminate artillery fire and rocket attacks, thus destroying the infrastructure of the Ukrainian cities,” officials of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. said the forces. The Ukrainian forces “continue to maintain the circular defense of the city of Mariupol and to defend and prevent the advance of the enemy in the Chernihiv region,” the report added. Ukrainian forces also continue to defend Kyiv and the settlements of Motyzhyn, Lisne, Kapitanivka and Dmytrivka, officials said.
