War

Ukrainian officials say Russian attacks hit the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, damaging buildings and vehicles.At least 14 people have been killed in overnight attacks on Ukraine’s eastern region, where Russia has intensified its assault in recent days.Ukraine’s emergency service said on Saturday that Russian forces hit the town of Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region on Friday night, killing 11 people and wounding 30.Emergency services added that eight five-storey apartment buildings, an administrative building, and 30 cars were damaged.“We understand a number of buildings were hit. And as the rescue teams were pulling people out of the rubble, searching for them, other strikes took place,” Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig reported from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.“Dobropillia is around 20 kilometres [12 miles] from the front line in the east. It’s not far from the hotly contested town of Porkovsk, where tense fighting has been taking place for months now,” he said.“Russian forces have been trying to take that town and there are reports that they’ve reached the southern outskirts.”Meanwhile, to the north in the Kharkiv region, at least three people were killed and seven injured after a Russian drone attack on a civilian building in Bogodukhiv, the governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Synehubov, wrote on Telegram.In Odesa, a drone attack resulted in several fires, which affected a hangar with agricultural equipment, a service station building, a car parts store, solar panels mounted in an open area and a four-storey industrial building.At the same time, Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region, said on Saturday that a tank at the Kirishi refinery, one of Russia’s largest, was damaged by falling debris after a Ukrainian drone was shot down.