Fighting intensified in Ukraine after a gun attack that killed 11 people on a Russian military training ground
Fighting rages in eastern Ukraine, southern Kherson regionKYIV, Oct 16 - Russia has opened a criminal investigation after gunmenat a military training ground near the Ukrainian border, authorities said on Sunday, as fighting raged in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the comments by Arestovych, a prominent commentator on the war, or independently verify casualty numbers and other details. The governor of Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said no local residents were among those killed or wounded. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a strong Putin ally, said last week that his troops would deploy with Russian forces near the Ukrainian border, citing what he said were threats from Ukraine and the West.would be stationed in Belarus as part of a "regional grouping" of forces to protect its borders.
Fighting has been particularly intense this weekend in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and the strategically important Kherson province in the south, three of the four provinces Putin proclaimed as part of Russia last month.the administration building in the city Donetsk, capital of the Donetsk region, the head of its Russian-backed administration said on Sunday.
Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repelled efforts by Ukrainian troops to advance in the Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, inflicting what it described as significant losses.
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