FILE - Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol during shelling, in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)
Ukraine’s military leadership said on Saturday that “fierce battle” had resumed in Pisky, an eastern settlement over which Russia had previously claimed complete control earlier in the day.
“The occupiers are attempting to breach our forces’ defenses in the direction of Oleksandropol, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Maryinka, and Pisky,” Ukraine’s military staff stated in a nightly briefing note posted on Facebook.
