Russia launched missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the surrounding region for the first time in more than seven weeks and struck parts of the country’s east and south with drones, Ukrainian officials said, Sunday, November 12, 2023.

Ukraine says it has reclaimed a village in the country’s northeast bordering Russia.

Officials in the eastern region, the focus of Russia’s slow advance for 20 months, say Ukrainian forces have repulsed some attacks by Moscow’s forces and they anticipate further attacks, particularly around the devastated town of Avdiivka.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv city’s military administration, said a Russian ballistic missile was launch at the capital at around 8 a.m. Saturday.
Ruslan Kravchenko, governor of the central Kyiv region, said five private homes and several commercial buildings in the region were damage. He said two Russian missiles hit a field between settlements.

Ukrainian intelligence official Andriy Yusov told state television

“This is neither the first nor the last joint attack.” He pointed to an increase in the number of air alerts in recent days.
Online video from the Kharkiv region showed border guards raising blue and yellow Ukrainian flags in the village of Topoli along the Russian border, without further explanation. Ukrainian troops a year ago launch a lightning offensive to retake large swathes of territory in the northeast and since June have been involve in counteroffensive in the east and south.
Prosecutors in the northern Sumy region said two people on a motorbike were kill when Russian troops opened fire on a street.
In the east, military spokesman Oleskandr Shtupun said Ukrainian forces had repulsed 35 Russian attacks in and near Avdiivka, which has come under heavy fire since mid-October.
Satun told national television that 70 percent of airstrikes in the east and south targeted Avdiivka.

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