Russian strike on residential building kills 29 in eastern Ukraine, officials say
The residential building in the town of Chasiv Yar was hit on Saturday evening as The Mykolaiv and Kherson regions have also become hotspots in the conflict, with Ukrainian forces stepping up their firing against Russian storage and supply lines in occupied territory in the south and Russia using artillery fire to try to prevent Ukrainian advances.The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said early Saturday that air defenses had been activated in Kherson.RIA Novosti cited the pro-Russian military-civil administration as saying that there was shelling from the Mykolaiv direction. “Air defense is working over Kherson,” the administration said on its Telegram channel.The United States has announced its fresh supplies of weapons and humanitarian aid for Ukraine in recent days. The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with four more high mobility artillery rocket systems in the latest security assistance package, a senior defense official said Saturday. And the US State Department has announced an additional humanitarian aid package for Ukraine totaling nearly $368 million.CNN’s Manveena Suri, Yulia Kesaieva and Josh Pennington contributed reporting.
