KYIV
\nAfter a relative lull, Russia launched a drone attack early Sunday on Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, officials said. It was the first such attack of the war in 12 days.
\nAll of the Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones were detected and shot down, according to Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv city administration. In addition to the city itself, the surrounding Kyiv region was targeted. Kyiv regional Gov. Ruslan Kravchenko reported that one person was wounded by falling debris from a destroyed drone.
\nOfficials in the Ukrainian capital didn\u2019t provide an exact number of drones that attacked the city. But Ukraine\u2019s air force said that across the country, eight Shaheds and three Kalibr cruise missiles were launched by the Russians.
\nFurther south, a 13-year-old boy was wounded in overnight shelling of Ukraine\u00eds partially occupied southern Kherson province, said Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, spokesman for the Ukrainian administration of the province.
\nThe child was wounded when the Russian army shelled the village of Mylove on the banks of the Dnieper River in the Beryslav district, Tolokonnikov said.
\n\u00ecThe child was hospitalized, there is no threat to his life,\u00ee Tolokonnikov added,\u00ee he said on state TV.
\nShelling of Kherson province continued Sunday morning, wounding four people in the regional capital, also called Kherson. The regional prosecutor\u00eds office said that a residential area of the city was targeted by Russian troops operating in the Russia-occupied part of the Kherson province. \u00ec
\n\u201cAt least four citizens were wounded, two of them due to a targeted strike on a high-rise building,\u00ee the office wrote on Telegram.
\nMeanwhile, Ukraine\u00eds military reported that the most intense fighting continued in Ukraine\u00eds industrial east, with attacks focused around Bakhmut, Marinka and Lyman in the country\u00eds Donetsk province, where 46 combat clashes took place.
\nUkrainian forces were advancing amid a \u00ecmassive offensive\u00ee on the southern and northern flanks of the destroyed city of Bakhmut, Ukraine\u00eds Eastern Group of Forces spokesman Serhii Cherevaty told Ukrainian state television. But he didn\u2019t mention how much progress they made. The details, he said, would be disclosed once Ukrainian forces had analyzed the situation and consolidated their positions.
\nIn its regular update Sunday morning, the General Staff said that over the previous 24 hours, Russia had carried out 27 airstrikes, one missile strike and around 80 attacks from multiple rocket launchers, targeting regions in the north, northeast, east and south of the country.
\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Sunday \u00f3 the day the country honors its navy \u00f3 to hear a report from the navy commander, discuss prospects for the development of a naval drone and missile program, as well as present awards to service members.
\nIn Russia, local officials reported that air defense systems shot down a drone over the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, while the neighboring Kursk region faced shelling attacks. No casualties or damage were reported.
\nFollowing the drama of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin\u00eds rebellion last week, Russian authorities remained defiant. Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia\u00eds lower house of parliament, the State Duma, said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin came out of this situation \u00echaving strengthened his position even more both in the country and in the world.\u00ee
\nRussian society, he said, \u00echaving passed this test, has shown its maturity.\u00ee According to Volodin, there was \u00ecnot a single example of someone supporting the rebellion.\u00ee
\nBut Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, was believed to have been detained days after the mutiny. It\u00eds not clear whether Surovikin, who has longtime links to Prigozhin, faces any charges or where he is being held, reflecting the opaque world of the Kremlin\u00eds politics and uncertainty after the revolt.
\nWriting on Telegram, Volodin said that the Russian president \u00ecdid everything to prevent bloodshed and confusion,\u00ee including explaining to Wagner fighters \u00ecthe real state of affairs.\u00ee \u00ec(Putin) suggested that those who want to defend Russia continue their service with weapons in their hands. As far as I know, many of them agreed to this,\u00ee Volodin said.
\nIn addition, the speaker of the State Duma said that he had analyzed the \u00ecchallenges\u00ee Russia faced in the past, affirming that if \u00ecsomeone like Putin\u00ee had been leading the country in 1917 and 1991, there wouldn\u2019t have been a revolution in Russia, and the USSR wouldn\u2019t have collapsed.
\nBut independent observers and analysts say that Putin may come out politically weakened after first announcing that Wagner would face harsh repercussions, only to later say that the group\u00eds forces wouldn\u00edt face prosecution. Prigozhin was also allowed to leave Russia for Belarus.
\nPolish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said Sunday that Poland would send 500 police officers to join 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers already on the country\u00eds border with Belarus. It follows an announcement earlier this week that Poland would strengthen defenses on its eastern border after the relocation of Wagner fighters to Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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