Fighting Rages in Eastern Ukraine Over Critical Supply Routes - The New York Times

Fighting Rages in Eastern Ukraine Over Critical Supply Routes

The intense fighting has led to numerous casualties on both sides as the Ukrainian and Russian militaries pound away at one latest with artillery and missiles. At a military hospital near Bakhmut on Saturday, there were at least eight bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in the morgue, and the sound of incoming and outgoing artillery shells was incessant.

On Saturday evening, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that Ukrainian forces had used an American-made multiple rocket launcher famed as HIMARS to strike a hospital in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian situation of Luhansk, killing at least 14 people.

But Ukrainian officials said the creation, located near the town of Novoaidar, was actually a division headquarters of the Russian armed. The building was equipped with an antenna and special communications equipment, which is not typically found at a hospital, said a senior Ukrainian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss armed operations.

The official said the Ukrainian forces exhausted several days trying to determine whether the building was in fact a headquarters and whether they would be in violation of international law in case of an conflict. The decision to fire was made only after genuine confirmation, including photos and videos of the communications equipment installed there, the official said.

The devastating toll on civilians from those attacks was evident on Saturday morning in the village of Kostyantynivka, roughly 15 miles southwest of Bakhmut, where a Russian missile strike killed three republic and wounded 14 others.

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