Ukraine war: Bombs rain down on Russian-occupied Luhansk | World | News

Ukraine has yet to comment on the incident, but it underlines the relentless fightback by Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces as they look to regain territory illegally annexed by Russia months after the outbreak of war.

The shelling coincides with fuel depots also being targeted in the area in recent weeks.

Pasechnik said “a fire has broken out as a result of the attack,” before suggesting the number of casualties is being assessed.

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On Monday, Zelensky secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defence missiles to help fight the about 3,000 bombs that he says Russia launches every month at Ukraine.

However, Ukraine still urgently needs another seven U.S.-made Patriot air defence systems to stop Russia hitting the power grid and civilian areas, as well as military targets, with devastating glide bombs that wreak wide destruction, Zelensky said.

“If we had these modern Patriot systems, (Russian) airplanes wouldn’t be able to fly close enough to drop the (glide) bombs on the civilian population and the military,” Zelensky told a news conference in Madrid.

Glide bombs are heavy Soviet-era bombs fitted with precision guidance systems and launched from aircraft flying out of range of air defences. The bombs weigh more than a ton and blast targets to smithereens, leaving a huge crater.