The authorities activate the air alert in the face of the danger of missile launches, such as the one that has left three dead and fifteen wounded in Dnipro
One week after five months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the fighting continues in a country devastated by ongoing clashes. Moscow has regrouped its troops and launched new attacks in the south and east of the invaded territory. The objective? According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, it is about “strengthening the activities of the South and Center military groups to exclude the possibility of the Ukrainian Armed Forces launching massive missile attacks on cities under Moscow’s control.”
The increase in the offensive in the southern part of the country has been seen in Dnipro, where at least three people have died and another fifteen have been injured after an air attack on a factory. “The rockets have hit an industrial company and the busy street next to it,” said the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk province, Valentin Reznichenko. Of the non-fatal victims, thirteen recorded “serious draft” injuries while the remaining two, of “medium severity”.
In the same region, two other people have died in the city of Nikopol after the launch of 53 Grad rockets against the city. Ukrainian authorities, who have raised the death toll in this week’s Russian attack on Vinitsia to 24, are not hopeful that the fighting will end any time soon. And the regrouping of the Moscow Army has hit them like a bucket of cold water.
In this new offensive phase of the Kremlin, with a reinforcement of troops, attacks can happen anytime and anywhere. For this reason, due to a greater danger of missile launches, the air alert has been activated in almost the entire country, except in Crimea and the Kherson region, both lands occupied by Russia. Given the situation, the authorities recommend that the inhabitants choose to take refuge. Indeed, the mayor of Sumy, Oleksandr Lisenko, has advised his residents to leave the city over the weekend following recent clashes in the region, where invaders fired mortars at Ukrainian positions near Zarutske, Starikove and Budivelne. .
“We will restore everything they destroy”
To the east of the country, in the Donbas region, Vladimir Putin’s troops have concentrated their main efforts on preventing the advance of the kyiv troops. They have also launched air and artillery attacks on Donetsk, Kharkiv, Bakhmut and Sloviansk, among other smaller towns.
The destruction will not persist. President Volodymyr Zelensky has assured that “we will definitely restore everything that they destroy. Each of the more than two thousand educational institutions: all kindergartens, all schools, institutes, universities. And most importantly, we will preserve our humanity and our civility.” Likewise, he has predicted that Russian society “will remain paralyzed for generations”, alluding to the attacks perpetrated by “so many murderers and executioners”
Meanwhile, Ukraine has accused Russia of firing missiles from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, occupied since March and where at least 500 Russian soldiers remain. The nuclear energy operator Energoatom has denounced the movement of projectile launchers to the facilities to attack other territories. “The situation is extremely tense and the tension is increasing day by day. The occupants are bringing their machinery, including the missile systems with which they have attacked the other side of the Dnipro River and the Nikopol territory,” Energoatom Chairman Petro Kotin said.
Amid the tensions, the United States on Saturday denounced two Russian visits to an Iranian airfield in the last month to study drones, after Tehran denied sending military aid to Moscow for use in the war. “We have information that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with several hundred unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable ones,” they said from the White House. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian, for his part, has assured that such US claims have no basis whatsoever.
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