Russia is likely to step up Ukraine civilian target attacks, UK warns

Russian shelling deed cities and towns crossed a wide agelong of Ukraine during the night, officials said Sunday, portion the British Defense Ministry warned that Russia is apt to summation its attacks connected civilian targets arsenic it suffers battlefield defeats.

"In the past 7 days, Russia has accrued its targeting of civilian infrastructure adjacent wherever it astir apt perceives nary contiguous subject effect," the ministry said successful an online briefing. "As it faces setbacks connected the beforehand lines, Russia has apt extended the locations it is prepared to onslaught successful an effort to straight undermine the morale of the Ukrainian radical and government."

Overnight shelling deed a infirmary successful the metropolis of Mykolaiv, a important Black Sea port, determination politician Vitaliy Kim said. He said shelling besides deed different parts of the region, wounding 2 people.

Three radical were wounded successful nighttime shelling of the metropolis of Nikopol, which is crossed the stream from Europe's largest atomic powerfulness station, determination politician Valentyn Reznichenko said.

The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was captured by Russian forces successful March, but is operated by Ukrainian engineers. Its past reactor was switched disconnected a week agone aft repeated powerfulness failures due to the fact that shelling enactment important information systems astatine risk.

In the Kharkiv region, wherever a Ukrainian counteroffensive forced Russian troops into a monolithic pullback from overmuch of the region, 3 radical were killed by rocket attacks implicit the past day, including an 11-year-old girl, according to determination politician Oleh Syniehubov.

Five radical died implicit the past time successful Russian attacks successful the Donetsk region, 1 of 2 Ukrainian regions that Russia recognizes arsenic sovereign states, politician Pavlo Kyrylenko said.

The separatist forces that power overmuch of Donetsk connected Sunday claimed that Ukrainian shelling of a prisoner-of-war colony successful Olenivka killed 1 captive and injured four.

More than 50 POWs were reported killed successful a July onslaught connected the Olenivka situation that Russian and Ukrainian authorities blasted connected each other.

A Washington-based deliberation tank, the Institute for the Study of War, said Russian forces successful Donetsk proceed to behaviour "meaningless operations" connected villages arsenic opposed to reinforcing the beforehand line.