Russia restarts bombing Ukraine after ceasefire ends

Ukrainians walk past a destroyed residential building in Chasiv Yar, Eastern Ukraine, on Saturday. Pic/AFP

Russia's overnight bombing of regions in eastern Ukraine killed at least one, officials said on Sunday after Moscow ended a self-declared Christmas ceasefire and vowed to fight on until it defeats its neighbour.

Two thermal power plants were damaged by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-controlled parts of the country's Donetsk region with preliminary reports of injuries, Moscow-installed officials said on Sunday. Serhiy Haidai, governor of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, said on TV on Sunday there was heavy fighting in the region and Russian forces had deployed their most combat-ready units and heavy equipment to the city of Kriminna that they occupy, which he said meant the Russians were slowly retreating in the region.

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With nighttime temperatures dipping to minus 15-17 Celsius (5 to 1 Fahrenheit), fighting activity would soon increase as hard frosts mean it is easier to move heavy equipment, Haidai added. Shellfire echoed on Saturday around the near-deserted streets of the town of Bakhmut, focus of the most intense fighting in Russia's invasion.

The Russian-installed governor of the Crimean city of Sevastopol said on Saturday air defences had shot down a drone in what he suggested was the latest attempted Ukrainian attack on a port where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based.

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