Complex reportedly struck by Himars rockets may have been a stronghold of Wagner mercenary group that fights for Kremlin
Ukraine has attacked a barracks in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol with some Ukrainian sources claiming scores of Russian casualties.
A senior official in eastern Ukraine said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had attacked a hotel where members of Russia’s private Wagner military group were based, leading to “significant losses”. “The situation in the Odesa region is very difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
He said a “recreation centre” where people were dining was destroyed in the Ukrainian attack with Himars missiles. Himars multiple rocket launchers have been among Ukraine’s most effective weapons in the war, delivering precision fire on hundreds of targets, including Russian command posts. On Friday, the United States said it was sending more aid to Kyiv to strengthen its air defences and defeat drones.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Melitopol, a major industrial and transport centre occupied by Russia since March, was the key to south.
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