A video shot from a drone shows the devastated Ukrainian village of Ocheretyn

In that area, Russian forces are pushing the exhausted, low-ammunition Ukrainian forces. Ukraine’s military admits the Russians have gained a “stronghold” in Ocheretyn, but says fighting continues.

Before the war, approximately 3,000 people lived in this village. people, but the record shows no residents and no undamaged buildings. Most of the houses do not seem to be rebuilt, and the factory on the outskirts of the village is also badly damaged.

The inhabitants of the village had to flee. Among them is a 98-year-old woman who walked nearly 10 km to the Ukrainian front line last week in slippers and a walking stick.

Russia has also stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, in recent weeks.

Oleh Synjehubov, head of the Kharkiv region, said on Saturday that four people were injured and a fire broke out in a two-story civilian building last night when Russian forces attacked Kharkiv with drones.

The injured, including a 13-year-old, were hit by falling debris, O. Synjehubov wrote on the Telegram social network.

Russian state news agency RIA reported on Saturday that Moscow forces had struck a drone warehouse in Kharkiv. This report cannot be independently verified.

The Ukrainian military announced that Russia had launched 13 Shahed drones into the Kharkiv and Dniprotovsk regions last night, and that all of them had been shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.

Ukraine’s energy ministry said on Saturday that one power substation in the Dnipropetrovsk region was damaged during overnight strikes and that the area was briefly without power.

As the head of the region Serhijus Lysaks said, the falling debris of the drone damaged critical infrastructure and three private houses. Two residents were taken to hospital.

At the time, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that four American long-range ATACMS missiles, recently sent by Washington to Kyiv, had been shot down over annexed Crimea.

The Ukrainian drone also damaged telecommunications infrastructure near the Russian city of Belgorod, about 50 km from the Ukrainian border, Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.