MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday that its forces had taken control of the village of Andriivka, southwest of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The Ukrainian General Staff said later that its troops were repelling three Russian assaults in the area of Andriivka and Novyi. Andriivka was liberated by Ukrainian troops in Sept during a counteroffensive that largely struggled to break through Russian defensive lines.
In Kharkiv, seven were killed in a printing house struck by a Russian missile on Thursday, as President Vlodymyr Zelensky called out his western allies for not providing enough military support to rebuff Russian attacks. reuters