UKRainian Forces Conduct Offensive On Melitopol Front and Near Bakhmut; RUssian Missile Turns UKR Market Into Fiery, Blackened Ruin Strewn with Bodies; UKR Forces Continue to Advance in W. Zaporizhzhia; UKR Aircraft Launch 13 Strikes on Enemy Forces, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Ukrainian forces conduct offensive on Melitopol front and near Bakhmut – General Staff report:

During the last 24 hours, the Defence Forces of Ukraine have been conducting an offensive operation on the Melitopol front, killing the Russian soldiers and liberating occupied territories step by step. They are also pushing the Russian forces south of Bakhmut.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 18:00 on 6 September

Details: During the day, the Russians launched 10 missile attacks, 54 airstrikes and 31 attacks from multiple-launch rocket systems on the positions of the Ukrainian forces and settlements.

The operational situation in the south and east of Ukraine remains complicated. 26 combat encounters took place.

On the Volyn and Polissia fronts, there have been no significant changes to the operational situation.

On the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna fronts, the Russians launched an airstrike near the settlement of Hraniv, Kharkiv Oblast. Over 25 settlements were attacked by mortars and artillery.

On the Kupiansk front, the Russians launched an airstrike near the settlements of Synkivka, Kotliarivka and Krokhmalne in Kharkiv Oblast. The settlements of Kolodiazne, Kyslivka and Berestove in Kharkiv Oblast were attacked by artillery and mortars.

On the Lyman front, the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks near the settlement of Novoyehorivka, Luhansk Oblast. The Russians launched airstrikes near the settlements of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast and Vesele in Donetsk Oblast. Over 10 settlements were subject to artillery and mortar attacks.

On the Bakhmut front, the Defence Forces repelled Russian attacks near the settlement of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Donetsk Oblast. The Russians launched airstrikes near the settlements of Khromove and Pivnichne in Donetsk Oblast. Over 15 settlements, including Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bila Hora, Bohdanivka and Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast, were under artillery and mortar attacks. In their turn, the Defence Forces had partial success as a result of storming actions to the south from the city of Bakhmut, pushing the Russians out of their positions and gaining a foothold in the positions they achieved. —>READ MORE HERE

Russian missile turns Ukrainian market into fiery, blackened ruin strewn with bodies:

The Russian missile that struck Wednesday in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground.

The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one of Russia’s deadliest strikes on civilians in months, Ukrainian officials said.

“There was no military target here. This is a peaceful neighborhood in the city center,” Stefan Slovak, who lives in Kostiantynivka, said in a trembling voice.

Behind him were the remnants of the market, where charred bodies could be seen in the street, their clothes still burning, near cars engulfed in flames. Behind a market stall holding fresh parsley, rescuers found a women in civilian clothes with her head covered in blood.

Video taken by The Associated Press showed a chaotic scene. As firefighters tried to douse the flames, first responders rushed to apply tourniquets and load the wounded into emergency vehicles using stretchers and blankets. Posters or tarps were used to cover some of the dead. Onlookers cried and consoled one another.

“They are shooting at peaceful civilians. Are we soldiers here? Are we shooting at them? No! So why? They are just trying to destroy Ukrainian nation,” said resident Nadezhda Negoda. —>READ MORE HERE

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