Chilling drone footage shows how an ancient Ukrainian village was razed to the ground and turned into an apocalyptic wasteland by Vladimir Putin’s troops.
Ocheretyne has been hit by relentless fighting and is now just a shadow of its former self.
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The village has been a reference target to Russian forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
Russian soldiers have been advancing into the area, attacking Kiev’s depleted and ammunition-deprived forces with artillery, drones and bombs.
Ukraine’s military acknowledged that the Russians had gained a foothold in Ocheretyne
Before the war, the village had a population of around 3,000, but now not a soul can be seen in the footage as the conflict continues.
Last week, residents fought to flee the village.
Among them was a 98-year-old woman, wearing flip-flops, who walked almost ten kilometers alone, supported by a cane, until she reached the Ukrainian front line.
No building in Ocheretyne managed to escape the relentless bombardment and most appear to be damaged beyond repair.
Many houses were so destroyed that they were reduced to just piles of wood and bricks and a factory on the outskirts was also seriously damaged.
The images also show smoke coming from several homes and fires in at least two buildings.
Elsewhere, Russia has in recent weeks stepped up attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in a bid to dismantle the regions. energy infrastructures and terrorize its 1.3 million residents.
Four people were injured and a two-story civilian building was damaged and set on fire overnight after Russian forces attacked Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine with drone blasts, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Saturday.
The four, including a 13-year-old boy, were injured by falling debris, he said on the Telegram messaging app.
Russian state agency RIA reported on Saturday that Moscow forces attacked a drone warehouse in Kharkiv that had been used by Ukrainian troops overnight.
He cited Sergei Lebedev, described as a coordinator of local pro-Moscow guerrillas, but his comments could not be independently verified.
On Saturday, another Russian attack hit a civilian business in an industrial district of Kharkhiv, Syniehubov said.
Initial reports indicated that four people were injured.
In black Odessa seaportwhich has been repeatedly targeted in recent days, three people were injured in a rocket attack on civilian infrastructure, said regional governor Oleh Kiper.
The Ukrainian military said Russia launched a total of 13 Shahed drones into the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions of eastern Ukraine overnight, all of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said on Saturday that night attacks damaged an electrical substation in the Dnipropetrovsk region, briefly depriving families and businesses of power.
According to Serhii Lysak, governor of the province, falling drone debris damaged unspecified critical infrastructure and three private homes, one of which caught fire.
Two residents, a man and a woman, were rushed to the hospital.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday morning that its forces overnight shot down four U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles over the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
The ministry did not provide further details.
Ukraine recently began using missiles, secretly supplied by the United States, to target areas controlled by Russia, including a military airfield in Crimea and another area east of the occupied city of Berdyansk, U.S. officials said last week.
Long sought after by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine almost twice the strike distance, up to 300 kilometers, than it had with the medium-range version of the weapons it received from the US last October.
A Ukrainian drone also damaged telecommunications infrastructure on the outskirts of Belgorod, a Russian city about 50 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, according to the local governor.
Vyacheslav Gladkov did not say what the site was used for.
Hours later, Gladkov reported that five people in Belgorod were hospitalized, with shrapnel and other injuries, following a strong explosion on Saturday that also damaged around 30 private soldiers. houses and caused two fires.
He did not immediately clarify what caused the explosions.
It comes as Ukraine attacks another major Russian oil refinery in a kamikaze drone attack, the explosions triggering a huge inferno near Moscow.
Dramatic video from the scene showed flames shooting from the facilities of energy giant Rosneft in the city of Ryazan on Wednesday.
Residents of Ryazan, located 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow, reportedly heard the drone noise at around 3 am.
Two explosions followed the sound, unleashing hell.
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