During the intense aerial onslaught, the commander of the 30th battalion was killed, according to the independent Ukrainian intelligence service DeepState. The Ukrainian unit went on to liberate Kindrativka, the second village it has driven the Russian army from in recent days.

A Russian missile hit a Ukrainian army training ground, killing three soldiers and wounding 18 others, authorities said, in the latest attack to embarrass military officials as they struggle to make up a severe manpower shortage in the nearly 3 1/2-year war.

Russian glide bombs and ballistic missiles struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility overnight as Russia’s relentless strikes on civilian areas killed at least 22 people across the country, officials said Tuesday,