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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2022 A9 EASTERN UKRAINE Russian forces begin assault on two cities BY SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces began an assault Sat- urday on two key cities in the eastern Donetsk region and kept up rocket and shelling attacks on other Ukrainian cities, including one close to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s military and local officials said. Both cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka have been con- sidered key targets of Rus- sia’s ongoing offensive across Ukraine’s east, with analysts saying Moscow needs to take Bakhmut if it is to advance on the regional hubs of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. “In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is conducting an offensive operation, concen- trating its main efforts on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. It uses ground at- tack and army aviation,” the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook. The last Russian strike on Sloviansk was July 30, but Ukrainian forces are fortifying their positions around the city in expectation of new fighting. “I think it won’t be calm for long. Eventually, there will be an assault,” Col. Yurii Bereza, head of the volunteer national guard regiment, told The As- sociated Press. Russian shelling killed five civilians and injured 14 oth- ers in the Donetsk region in the last day, Donetsk gover- nor Pavlo Kyrylenko wrote Saturday on Telegram, say- ing two people were killed in Poprosny, and one each in Avdiivka, Soledar and Pervo- maiskiy. The governor of the east- ern Dnipropetrovsk region said three civilians were in- jured after Russian rockets fell on a residential neighbor- hood in Nikopol, a city across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. The nuclear plant has Evgeniy Maloletka/AP A local resident tries to stop the fire at a neighbor’s house destroyed by a Russian attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. been under Russian control since Moscow’s troops seized it early in the war. “After midnight, the Rus- sian army struck the Nikopol area with (Soviet-era) Grad rockets, and the Kryvyi Rih area from barrel artillery,” Valentyn Reznichenko wrote on Telegram. Another Russian missile attack overnight damaged unspecified infrastructure in the regional capital of Zapor- izhzhia. On Thursday, Russia fired 60 rockets at Nikopol, damaging 50 residential build- ings in the city of 107,000 and leaving residents without elec- tricity. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned this week that the situation was becoming more perilous day by day at the Zaporizhzhia plant. “Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at Bilal Hussein/AP Workers load bags of flour into a truck at the Big Mills factory in the southern town of Sebline, south of Beirut, Lebanon. Russia’s war in Ukraine has threatened food supplies in countries like Lebanon, which has the world’s highest rate of food inflation. the plant, he said. “What is at stake is extremely serious.” He expressed concern about the way the plant is be- ing operated and the danger posed by the fighting going on around it. Experts at the U.S.- based Institute for the Study of War said Russia is shelling the area intentionally, “put- ting Ukraine in a difficult po- sition.” •The Ukrainian company operating the nuclear power station said Saturday that Russian troops are using the plant’s basement to hide from Ukrainian shelling and have barred its Ukrainian staff from going there. “Ukrainian personnel do not yet have access to these premises, so in the event of new shelling, people have no shelter and are in danger,” En- erhoatom, a Ukrainian state enterprise, said on its Tele- gram channel. Enerhoatom said Friday that Russian rockets had dam- aged the plant’s facilities, in- cluding a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line. Local Russian-appointed officials acknowledged the damage, but blamed it on the Ukrainians. In other developments: • In Ukraine’s south, two ci- vilians were seriously injured Saturday after Russian forces fired rockets on the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv before dawn, according to regional author- ities. That followed a Friday afternoon attack on Mykolaiv that killed one person and wounded 21 others. • In the Kherson region south of Mykolaiv, the deputy mayor of the Russia-occu- pied city of Nova Kakhovka was in critical condition af- ter an assassination attempt, the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti said, citing the deputy head of the Kherson region, most of which is under Russian control. • The first of three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn from Ukraine an- chored north of Istanbul on Saturday awaiting inspection, the Turkish Defense Minis- try said. The Panama-flagged Navi Star, which is carrying 33,000 tons of grain to Ire- land, left Odesa on Friday. It is being followed by the Turk- ish-flagged Polarnet and the Maltese-flagged Rojen, carry- ing over 25,000 tons of corn between them from Chorno- morsk. The joint inspection center was set up to get grain blocked in Ukraine by the war to the world. On Friday, the center inspected its first north- bound ship as it headed for Chornomorsk. • In the north, Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv and its surrounding area also came under Russian rocket fire again overnight, accord- ing to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov. A 18-year-old in Chuhuiv, a town near Kharkiv, had to be hospitalized Satur- day after he picked up an un- exploded shell. Both Chuhuiv and Kharkiv are near the Rus- sian border and have endured sustained Russian shelling in recent weeks. • The neighboring Sumy re- gion, which also borders Rus- sia, has also seen near-con- stant shelling and missile strikes. 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