In the Russian bombing of a settlement in the city of Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, three people were killed today, the local authorities announced.
In an area under Russian control in the neighboring region of Zaporozhye, also in southern Ukraine, Moscow-appointed authorities said four people were killed in an attack by Ukrainian forces on a railway bridge.
The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to leave Kherson in November, has recently been much calmer than the front in the eastern part of the country, where fierce fighting is taking place. However, the attacks in the south did not stop, and recently clashes continued in the area of Zaporozhye.
"Enemy artillery hit residential areas of the city," the regional administration said on social media, adding that a hospital, school, bus station, post office, bank and residential buildings were hit.
In those attacks, three people were killed and six were wounded, including a nurse.
The head of the pro-Russian administration installed by Moscow in Zaporozhye, Yevgeniy Balitsky, accused Ukraine of using American multi-barrel Himars missile launchers to attack a railway bridge where four people were killed and five were wounded.
Officials in some Western capitals fear that the Kremlin could dominate any protracted war where it would rely on wearing down its opponents.
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The military administration of the Kherson region announced that Russian troops shelled residential areas in Kherson and that many civilians were killed and wounded, the Kyiv Independent reported.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine added the affected hospital in that graph which was recently released by Ukraine.
A nurse was injured in the attack on the hospital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to contacts with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, although he has not scheduled a telephone conversation with him, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state news agency RIA Novosti, Reuters reports.
"For now, there are no agreed talks (with Solca), but Putin was and remains open to contacts," said Peskov.
Scholz told the Berlin daily "Tagesspiegel" that he will talk to Putin again - because it is necessary to talk.
He added that it is Putin's responsibility to withdraw troops from Ukraine to end this horrible, senseless war that has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Germany announced last week that it will send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev and also approve deliveries of Leopards by allied European countries.
The Ukrainian army said its forces repelled an attack in the Blahodatna area in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, while the Russian private military group "Vagner" said it had taken control of a village in the area, Reuters reports.
Ukrainian forces added that they repelled Russian attacks in the areas of 13 other settlements in the Donetsk region.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its 340th day - you can see what happened yesterday in Eastern Europe HERE.
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