A Russian strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya killed at least one person and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian officials said on August 10, a day of heavy fighting across the front line that prompted the mandatory evacuation of dozens of settlements in an embattled eastern region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a fire broke out in a civilian building in Zaporizhzhya after Russian forces attacked the city with a missile.
Zelenskiy posted a video on Telegram showing a burning car near a hotel in Zaporizhzhya, which was hit by a Russian missile the night before, killing three people and wounding six.
Zaporizhzhya city-council secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said two children, a 3-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, were among the people wounded in the strike on August 10. Kurtev said at least four buildings were damaged.
Zaporizhzhya regional Governor Yuriy Malashko said the number of injured was 16, including four children.
Malashko said there were no military targets at the site of the attack, and that the area was "very crowded" at that time of the strike.
Zelenskiy said in his evening address on August 10 that Ukrainian authorities were preparing "more defense packages" for the military. Efforts are under way to increase the number of air-defense systems, he said.
He also said he had a closed conversation with representatives of the military leadership of Britain, calling it "productive."
Ukrainian officials issued the mandatory evacuation for 37 settlements in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region amid reports of increased shelling by Russian forces. Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov said about 11,000 people would be evacuated.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian military reported that about 25 combat clashes took place at the front during the day on August 10. The General Staff said Russian forces carried out "unsuccessful offensive actions" in multiple areas around Kupyansk and said Ukrainian forces near Avdiyivsk came under heavy fire but "continue to hold back the advance of the Russian troops."
According to the command, Russian troops launched three missile and 49 air strikes and fired 36 rocket salvo missiles at positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas during the day on August 10.
In its early update on August 10, Ukraine's military said its forces were on the offensive in Bakhmut in the east and in Melitopol and Berdyansk in the south.
But it acknowledged "strong resistance" from Russian forces that were "relocating units and troops [and] actively using their reserves."
Russia's emergency service said late on August 10 that a warehouse in a town to the west of Moscow had caught fire. TASS cited an emergency service's statement as saying that the fire in Odintsovo was 2,000 square meters at around midnight Moscow time. It did not say how the fire started.
The warehouse is located about 6 kilometers from the official government residence of President Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogaryovo.
Russia's Defense Ministry and the mayor of Moscow also reported that Russian forces downed two drones approaching the Russian capital for the second night in a row, with eyewitnesses reporting a fire within kilometers of Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
The Astra news Telegram channel shared an image it said was of residents huddled near the Domodedovo blaze.
Domodedovo and Vnukovo, another major Moscow airport, reportedly introduced tighter restrictions overnight on incoming aircraft to account for the risk of aerial attacks, causing a handful of minor flight delays.
The Russian Defense Ministry also said it had intercepted two drones near Sevastopol, the city in Russian-occupied Crimea that hosts a Black Sea naval base. It said nine more Ukrainian drones had been destroyed around Crimea after they were jammed and plummeted into the sea.
Ukrainian shelling of the Russian village of Chausy in the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine killed two people and injured two others, said the region's governor, Aleksandr Bogomaz.
The Russian-backed administration in the southern Ukrainian town of Nova Kakhovka said a civilian had been killed and another wounded in a Ukrainian strike on a business.
Ukrainian officials generally avoid acknowledging responsibility for suspected drone attacks on Russian territory, although they have privately taken credit for a slew of aerial and other strikes well inside Russia since a drone was reportedly destroyed over the Kremlin in May.
More recently, unmanned seaborne drones are also thought to have been used in Ukrainian attacks on a Russian fuel tanker and a Russian Black Sea naval base at Novorossiisk.
Also on August 10, the Ukrainian General Staff said it had destroyed seven of 10 Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones that flew into Ukraine from the Kursk region to the northeast in a five-hour span overnight on August 9-10.
The head of the military administration in Rivne, Vitaliy Koval, described a "massive" overnight drone attack that destroyed an oil depot in the region of Dubna but caused no casualties. Explosions were also reported in the Kyiv and Khmelnytsky regions.
RFE/RL cannot confirm claims from either side in the areas of the heaviest fighting.
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Navy on August 10 announced new "temporary corridors" to and from the country's Black Sea ports for civilian vessels prepared to accept the risk posed by "a military and mortal danger from the Russian Federation."
It said the routes "will primarily be used for the possibility of exit of civilian vessels in the Ukrainian ports of Chernomorsk, Odesa, and Pivdenniy."
A navy spokesman, Oleh Chalyk, told Reuters the corridor would also be for grain and agricultural products, which have been at the center of disputes since Russia's invasion began in February 2022.
