The Russian Army fulfills its threat to bomb the capital region hours after the sinking of its flagship in the Black Sea
It can be said that the Kievites have barely had two weeks to get used to the silence of the bombs that the withdrawal of the Russian invaders to the Donbas brought with it. Since Friday, the region has once again been the target of aerial fire and other cities such as Lviv or Kharkov have joined this deadly choreography of two bars marked by alarm sirens and then the noise of explosions. The bombs have not forgiven. Moscow had warned him in retaliation for the Ukrainian attacks on some of its towns on the border. Putin’s artillery has left more than twenty civilians confirmed dead in two days.
The missiles caused heavy damage to an oil refinery in Lisichansk, a city located near the front line in Donbas. The factory is frequently bombed. Locals say it’s about tiring firefighters and sapping their resources so they can’t stop fires in residential areas. The deceased are already buried in mass graves. Nearby, Severodononetsk is another massacred city, but the dead still leave this world alone: 400 graves have been dug since the start of the war.
The Kremlin threatened on Thursday to return to systematic attacks on kyiv. Many suspect that, beyond the alleged attacks by Ukrainian helicopters on Russian enclaves, the sinking of the Moskva, the star of the Black Sea Fleet that sank that same night after several hours involved in calls. The wreck of this 12,000-ton flagship is still a mystery. The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that it was destroyed by two Neptune missiles fired by the Ukrainian Army, which has celebrated it as its own success, compared to the version of the Russian Government, which attributes the loss of its main war cruiser to a fire on board .
But the truth is that, despite the support behind the confirmation of the United States, not even President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to make a formal statement on Friday in a television interview and limited himself to pointing out that history will tell how the Moscow. Moscow has not reported the fate of its hundreds of sailors.
The Ukrainian version is that two Neptune shells launched from one of their bases destroyed the ship. It is a locally made ammunition, which seems to have increased the pride of the resisters. The military industry introduced this missile shortly after the 2014 crisis in Crimea, but it has been in the last four days that its value has risen among weapons experts. If the Moskva did blow up, it did so after being activated from a mid-range mobile platform and with the help of a drone that distracted the ship’s detection systems. Had the cruise ship been sunk by foreign missiles, Putin’s anger might have been exacerbated. This very Saturday, his government warned the US to cease the transfer of arsenals to Ukraine –Washington will soon send an item valued at 800 million dollars– and, much less, of heavy weapons because it can lead to “unpredictable consequences”.
Concentrating the troops
Since Friday, Russian batteries have reduced two military complexes around kyiv to rubble. One of them, located in the Darnytsky district, belonged to the manufacturer of the Neptunes. The invaders, who concentrate all their troops in the southeast of the country to secure the Donbas strip, have changed their siege tactics on the Kiev region. Without ground troops, they are dedicated to attacking it with medium and long-range projectiles.
The restlessness has spread in a population that in the absence of explosions had begun to recover a little normality. The mayor himself reported that a thousand businesses had been reopened, including shops and food stores. The tension led this Saturday to groups of citizens to boo some journalists believing that they were spies. The Zelensky government also prohibited visits to the destroyed factories to prevent the Kremlin from confirming the extent of the destruction.
In Kharkiv, 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in a shelling of an industrial district. The attack was carried out with a rocket launcher and would have claimed the life of a seven-month-old baby. Meanwhile, in Mariúpol the feeling of an imminent fall grows. A regional leader explained that the port enclave has been “wiped off the face of the earth” and Zelensky warned the Kremlin that if he “eliminates” the last defenders he will suspend the peace negotiations; an apparent sign that there are hardly any Ukrainian soldiers left and that they would be about to surrender or be captured by the invaders.
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