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Officials said Ukrainian bombing destroyed two power plants in Donetsk

Moscow officials said on Sunday that Reuters reported two thermal power plants destroyed by Ukrainian bombing of Russian-controlled parts of the country’s Donetsk region.

The officials told their Telegram monitoring channel that preliminary information indicated casualties from the shelling in Zuris and Novi Svet.

Ukraine has almost never publicly claimed responsibility for attacks inside Russia or on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.

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Moscow officials and Russia’s state news agency TASS said on Sunday that two thermal power plants in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which is controlled by Russian forces, were damaged in a missile attack by the Ukrainian military.

Reuters also reported that preliminary information indicated that factories in Zuris and Novi Svet were hit and that some people at the site were injured, the officials said on their Telegram channel.

TASS reports that two people may be trapped under the rubble at the damaged Starobesheve power plant in Novi Svet. It said, citing officials, that the strike was carried out using a multiple launch rocket system.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, which has never publicly claimed responsibility for attacks inside Russia or on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces in Donetsk on Saturday. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Updated at 07.54 GMT

Officials said Ukrainian bombing destroyed two power plants in Donetsk

Moscow officials said on Sunday that Reuters reported two thermal power plants destroyed by Ukrainian bombing of Russian-controlled parts of the country’s Donetsk region.

The officials told their Telegram monitoring channel that preliminary information indicated casualties from the shelling in Zuris and Novi Svet.

Ukraine has almost never publicly claimed responsibility for attacks inside Russia or on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.

Opening summary

Welcome back to our ongoing live coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War – I’m Adam Fulton.

Russia bombed areas of eastern Ukraine overnight, local officials said, after Moscow ended its 36-hour ceasefire and vowed to fight on until victory.

The region’s governor, Oleh Sinhopov, said on messaging app Telegram on Sunday that a 50-year-old man died in the Kharkiv region as a result of Russian bombing.

In other developments:

Russian attacks were reported on Saturday in at least seven regions of eastern and southern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, despite Moscow declaring a ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas. At least three people were killed.

Russian forces shelled the Kherson region 39 times on Friday, according to Governor Yaroslav Yanushevich. Residential buildings and a fire station building came under fire in the liberated city of Kherson, in which one first responder was killed. Seven civilians were also wounded in the region of Rejon.

The Ukrainian military said that two people were killed and 13 wounded in Russian shelling of the eastern city of Bakhmut during the alleged ceasefire. The two dead were a 66-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman.

Its governor, Olli Sinyhopov, said Russian forces were “terrorizing” civilians in the northeastern Kharkiv region. No injuries were reported, but residential and commercial buildings were hit by fire.

Governor Serhiy Hayday said that Russian forces bombed Ukrainian positions 14 times and stormed one settlement three times on the front line in eastern Luhansk region in the first three hours of the alleged ceasefire. Explosions were heard from what Ukrainian forces on the front line described as Russian missile strikes. The Ukrainians returned fire from the tanks.

The governor of the occupied Crimean city of Sevastopol said that air defenses shot down a drone in an apparent attack on the port where the Russian Black Sea fleet is stationed. Mikhail Razvojev claimed that the incident occurred early Saturday.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense said fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces continued at a “routine level” over the Orthodox Christmas period. The ministry’s daily intelligence update said the fighting was concentrated in a densely forested area west of the town of Krymina in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk Province, where “the fighting degenerated into dismounted infantry combat, often at a short distance”.

The United States asked Italy to provide air defense systems to Ukraine as soon as possible. And the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that the request came in a conversation between the US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, and Francesco Tallo, the advisor to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has praised the United States for including armored fighting vehicles for tanks in its latest multi-billion dollar military aid package, saying it is “exactly what is needed”. The latest US military aid announced by the White House on Friday was the largest yet to Kiev, and for the first time included Bradley armored vehicles.

Services were held in Ukraine to celebrate the first Orthodox Christmas since Russia invaded the country last year. Metropolitan Epiphanius led the Christmas Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Dormition of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine has updated the number of Russian forces it believes it has killed to 110,740. The Armed Forces General Staff said in an update on Saturday that an additional 490 soldiers were killed on Friday.

Updated at 07.42 GMT

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