Early reports indicate that two people are trapped under the rubble of a student accommodation building which was partially destroyed in a night attack on the centre of the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast.
Russians attacked the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast overnight, and in the morning, they shelled the town of Borova in the Izium district of Kharkiv Oblast, killing one person and wounding another.
towards north towards moscow unimpeded by any russian security forces. let s go back about a month. we had the russian victory core, the so-called mutiny years that had decided to invade belgrade and kursk, and sloviansk. these were other forces not stop by any security detail as they went back towards moscow, and into russian i believe that zelenskyy is right on target here. the russian army is mostly in ukraine right now. the very fact that you mentioned early on in the program about how there were more airborne and air assault troops in the east. that is an indicator. like steve said, those guys are usually the palace guards. those are the most elite troops. if he is trying to put them in defensive positions, something that they are not really good at, these are people to jump out of airplanes and attack targets. if he s putting them in
after the russians get through bakhmut, it s more open countryside and small villages. the next towns they want to take, sloviansk, tram investors k, it s a stretch of country way. it s much quicker to get through that countryside and take that territory than it was getting through bakhmut. so, ukraine is really going all in to hold the russians back. around here you see a lot of military activity. old equipment, new equipment from nato, equipment on the backs of trucks that s come out for repairs, overspill shelling into local villages. all that sort of thing, it is a very, very heavy military area around here. and the closer you get to the front line, the more and more military there is. and the more and more deserted the villages are around. it s a huge effort to hold the russians back here right now. you can see, just incredibly tough fight. nic robertson from eastern ukraine. thank you, be careful. presidential politics back at home.
there is a toehold inside the city that ukraine said they still have. from where we are standing, now we can hear the shelling going. on it was heavy last night. it is heavy again tonight. the ukrainians are trying desperately hard to hold the russians back and not let them get beyond. everyone knows that bakhmut was such a long fight. we ve been talking about it for such a long. time such high casualties on both sides. but after the russians can t through bakhmut it is more open countryside and small villages. the next towns they want to take, sloviansk, kramatorsk, it is a stretch of countryside away. it is much quicker to get through that countryside and take that territory than it was getting through bakhmut. ukraine is really going all in to hold the russians back and around here you see a lot of military activity. old equipment, new equipment