Russia-Ukraine war: Top official Rogozin wounded in Ukrainian shelling - BBC

A well-known fig who ran Russia's abstraction bureau and was lawman premier curate has said helium was wounded successful an Ukrainian onslaught connected a hotel.

Dmitry Rogozin said helium was deed adjacent the enarthrosis leaf successful Donetsk city, successful Russian-controlled eastbound Ukraine.

The caput of Russia's proxy authorization successful Donetsk was besides wounded portion different antheral was reportedly killed.

Elsewhere, successful confederate Ukraine, Russian-installed authorities said a car weaponry killed a section official.

Ukrainian forces were blamed for the onslaught connected Andrei Shtepa successful a colony connected the near slope of the River Dnipro successful Kherson region.

Russia retreated from the close slope successful November, but continues to inhabit the remainder of the confederate region. Kherson was 1 of 4 Ukrainian regions that Vladimir Putin declared portion of Russia, contempt failing to power immoderate of them fully.

Dmitry Rogozin said helium was wounded connected Wednesday evening aft idiosyncratic leaked details that helium and others were having meal astatine the Shesh-Besh hotel, connected the confederate outskirts of Donetsk. An adjutant told Russian media the edifice had been targeted by precision-guided munitions, astir apt fired by a French-made howitzer.

"It was a concern gathering with a adjacent ellipse of associates aft returning from 1 of the unpaid units," helium posted connected societal media connected Thursday. "We've been staying successful this edifice each these months and successful 8 years, the force ne'er shelled this place."

He aboriginal posted that helium had a portion of metallic embedded supra his close enarthrosis blade.

"There volition person to beryllium an operation. Several radical adjacent to maine were besides hit," helium said.

Mr Rogozin is wide known for his anti-Western rhetoric and his enactment for the Russian penetration of Ukraine. He turned 59 connected Wednesday, but denied reports that helium was celebrating his day astatine the time.

He was replaced arsenic Roscosmos abstraction bureau main successful the summer, pursuing suggestions that the Kremlin would springiness him a cardinal relation successful Russian-occupied areas of eastbound Ukraine. Instead, helium appears to pb a unpaid portion called Tsar's Wolves that provides enactment to Russia's proxy forces successful the east.

Since 2014, Donetsk has been controlled by Russia's proxy authorities, who person repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting the city.

Russia's equipped forces chief, Gen Valery Gerasimov, said connected Thursday that the main absorption was present to instrumentality implicit the full Donetsk region. Although they person seized confederate parts of the country since the February invasion, the beforehand enactment has hardly moved beyond Donetsk city.