Ukraine’s allies line up nearly all funding required for the Czech ammunition plan. Ukrainian troops maintain positions on the Kherson axis, repel a dozen attacks on the Bakhmut axis. Russia drops glide bombs on civilian areas, causing casualties in Toretsk, Vovchansk.
Ukraine’s allies line up nearly all funding required for Czech ammunition plan
Ukraine’s allies have lined up nearly all the funding required for a Czech-led initiative to purchase hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds, according to a government official familiar with the arrangements cited by Bloomberg.
The commitments mean that the shells could be delivered to Ukraine in a matter of weeks, according to separate people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The precise timing would depend on contractual and delivery schedules, and could slip, the people cautioned.
A separate discussion of EU defense and foreign ministers is expected to take place later this week to hammer out the details.
Ukraine is estimated to need at least 200,000 rounds a month to keep up the fight against Russian forces, whose average daily shell use can be anywhere from three to five times what Ukrainian forces can fire.
Czech President Petr Pavel said at the Munich Security Conference last month that his country had identified 500,000 rounds of 155mm shells and 300,000 rounds of 122mm ones that could be delivered within weeks if the money was made available.
Ukrainian troops maintain positions on Kherson axis, repel dozen attacks on Bakhmut axis
There were 92 combat engagements in the past day, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a morning update on Thursday. Russia launched six missile strikes and 90 air strikes at Ukrainian troops’ positions and populated areas. It also made 115 attacks using multiple launch rocket systems.
Russia launched air strikes at towns and villages in Sumy region (Seredyna-Buda, Tovstodubove, Volfyne, Khrapivshchyna, and Kamyanka), Kharkiv region (Zarichne, Nesterne, Krasnyi Yar, Chorne, Kozacha Lopan, and Tabayivka), Donetsk region (Yampolivka, Terny, Bohdanivka, Stupochky, New York, Pokrovsk, Novobakhmutivka, Ocheretyne, Netaylove, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhaylivka, Vodyane, Urozhayne, and Staromayorske), and Zaporizhzhia region (Novodarivka, Chervone, Malynivka, and Mala Tokmachka).
More than 100 towns and villages in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions came under artillery fire.
On the Orikhiv axis in Zaporizhzhia region, Russian forces made 16 attacks west of Verbove and Robotyne. Ukrainian troops repelled 11 attacks on the Bakhmut axis.
Ukrainian troops maintain positions on the Kherson axis in the area of responsibility for the Odesa operational-strategic group. Russian forces take heavy losses, but continue attempts to force Ukrainian troops out of their positions. On Wednesday, they tried to attack Ukrainian positions and failed, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said.
Russia drops glide bombs on civilian areas, causing casualties in Toretsk, Vovchansk
On Thursday, Russia dropped a KAB-500 glide bomb on a neighborhood of private homes in Toretsk, in Donetsk region, injuring three people. The bomb hit a street as three neighbors – a 47-year-old man, a 63-year-old woman, and a 63-year-old man were talking outside.
They were treated for a concussion, arm injury, and fracture. Several private houses were damaged. One caught fire following an explosion.
On Thursday, Russia also dropped three glide bombs on Vovchansk, in Kharkiv region, killing a woman.
“Three glide bombs have just hit a neighborhood of private homes in Vovchansk. According to preliminary reports, a woman (around 40 years of age) was killed under the rubble of a house and one more person was wounded,” Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the National Police in Kharkiv region said on Facebook.
