Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine's second-largest city Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 21. Russian forces also shelled wheat fields, setting them on fire, he said. Elsewhere, Russian forces shelled the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight as well as the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka, where two schools were destroyed, Ukrainian officials said. Service members in Ukraine's Kharkiv region are training with new anti-tank rocket launchers and mortars as shipments of western weapons continue. ___This story corrects the assessment of the Study of War, which said Russian forces were unlikely to reach Sloviansk and Bakhmut, not that they might.

Source: thestar July 21, 2022 23:37 UTC