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Russian shelling killed at least seven people and injured 58 in the southern city of Kherson on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, turning central streets into a grisly scene of shattered glass, burned-out cars and bloodied corpses as the war entered its 11th month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the attack as targeting civilians, not military facilities. “This is not war according to defined rules,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “It is terror. It is killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure.”

A Ukrainian soldier fires at Russian positions in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The area remains a priority for Russia, despite fears of an assault on Ukraine’s north. Russian military maneuvers in Belarus are part of a Russian campaign to spread fear in Kyiv of imminent attack, but the forces in the neighboring country are insufficient for a fresh assault on the city, Ukrainian officials said. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s visit to Belarus, his country’s closest ally, this week and the recent flurry of joint military activity there led some analysts to speculate that Russia could be planning an attack.

Ukraine’s military said it was inflicting heavy losses on Russian forces in the south of the country in an area that military analysts suggest could be the next target for a Ukrainian offensive. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that the losses had forced Russian troops to set up a field hospital at a hotel complex in the city of Berdyansk.

KYIV, Ukraine—Explosions in a Russian-occupied city in eastern Ukraine killed two people and injured a prominent Russian nationalist and a Moscow-appointed leader in what Russian officials called a Ukrainian attack directed by informants. Ukraine didn’t immediately comment on the incident at a hotel on the edge of Donetsk, which Russia captured in a covert invasion in 2014 and has held ever since.

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