Ukraine war: Russia planning 'new actions' as Donetsk and Kharkiv bombing stepped up, says Kyiv
The Russian army has reportedly continued to bomb Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and northeastern Kharkiv regioins on Saturday. According to Ukrainian officials, Moscow is preparing "new actions" after four and a half months of war.
It comes as the US has promised to send its fifteenth aid package worth $400 million (€392 million) in military equipment to Ukraine.
In other developments, Washington has also asked China to condemn "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while the UK is hosting the first group of Ukrainian soldiers to train them.
The Ukrainian general staff reported Russian shelling in the east and on Kharkiv in the north-east, but no ground offensive, except for an attempt on Dolomitné, near Bakhmut in the east.
The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed to have struck the regions of Donetsk and Kharkiv, where six civilians were injured according to the local Ukrainian prosecutor's office.
The Russian army also claimed to have inflicted significant damage on the Ukrainian army and equipment around Mykolaiv in the south — where the mayor reported explosions heard overnight and asked the population to remain in shelters — as well as in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The governor of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said on Saturday that Russian forces were targeting the Donetsk region from their bases in Luhansk, where he added there was "no complete occupation" by Russian forces, and "still fighting" going on.
"The eyes of all aggressive political movements and regimes in the world are now on what Russia is doing to us," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
"Will the world be able to bring the real war criminals to justice?" he asked, warning of the risk of "hundreds of other aggressions" if it
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