Russian army started The final offensive in the Donbas, three weeks after the withdrawal from northern Kiev, Punitive operations continued in other parts of Ukraine, such as Lviv, where seven civilians were killed.
“A major attack took place overnight. The situation has changed radically,” Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Lugansk region, told Telegram. In addition, Russian troops Tricolor flag on the Town Hall building of the Berdyansk port, A new step for laying a land corridor between the Russian territory along the coast of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov and the annexed Ukrainian peninsula Crimea.
Final attack on Donbas
The Russian regrouping, which includes the arrival of additional units, is almost complete, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense reported today. Russia seems determined to pick up the pace in the east of the country. where enemy planes will increase the number of attacks by 50%.
“We can report that the attack has already begun,” Gaidai added shortly after that. “The invaders took Kreminna”. This town of only 20,000 inhabitants will allow Russian troops to attack behind the strategic city of Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian stronghold in Lugansk.
The aim of the Russian Army is to take Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, where there will be about 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers, and then advance to the Donetsk region in the direction of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. According to the Military Administration, the enemy also beat cities like Vugledar and Marink with missilesLocated near the separation of powers line passing through the outskirts of the city of Donetsk a.
The latest state of Mariupol
Meanwhile, at least a thousand civilians, including women and children, from the besieged port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov took refuge on the premises of the Azovstal steelworks, a former metallurgical plant built in the 1930s. . According to Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Arsén Avákov, these civilians “live in very bad conditions, without medicine, food and water.”
The former minister said the civilian population of Mariupol remained “to cover up the crimes of the Russians”. digging rubble, collecting bodies, and digging mass graves“People are working for food they can get from the Russian army,” Avakov said, adding that the invaders forced local residents to “act as combatants and deliberately send them to firing points where people could die.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Moscow for this. Wanting to “wipe from the face of the world” all the cities of Donbás, “Everything that made that industrial area famous.”
The besieged besieged the Pope
Therefore, the Commander of the 36th Marine Brigade Serhii VolynaHe wrote a letter to Pope Francis asking for help in rescuing the citizens of Mariupol, about a hundred thousand people would still remain here.
“I don’t have time to explain all this. The horror of what I see every day. Women with children living in shelters. They are cold and hungry. They are under fire from enemy planes every day. The wounded die every day because there is no medicine, no water, no food,” he writes.
The commander adds: “You’ve seen absolutely everything in this life. But I’m sure you’ve never seen what’s going on in Mariupol right now. Because this is hell on earth.”
“I turn to you for help, as the time has come when prayers are not enough. After the bombing of dramatic theater and motherhood, there is no longer any faith in the Russian invaders. Show the truth to the world, evacuate people, save their lives from Satan, who wants to burn everything alive.”
land corridor to Crimea
According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, another purpose of the current offensive in the east will be to guarantee the stability of the land corridor between the Donbas and Crimea.
In fact, Russian public television showed footage of how Russian soldiers raised the Russian flag on Berdyansk City Hall today. The coat of arms of the Ukrainian state was removed from the front. “The invaders are trying to uproot us Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, the image and likeness of the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. “They are transforming this region into ruble regions and subordinating them to the Russian administrative mechanism,” said Zelensky.
Zelensky condemned the kidnapping of local officials, the blackmailing of teachers, the theft of pensions and the blocking of humanitarian aid.
“Sabotage the occupiers’ orders. Do not cooperate with them. protest. “We must resist so that Russia does not disrupt the lives of more cities in Ukraine, as they did in Donetsk and Lugansk,” he said.
Criminal operation in the West
The flagship of the Russian Navy sank on Thursday“Moskva”, shot down by two Ukrainian Neptune missiles, according to Kiev, led to a series of criminal actions by Moscow.
If Kyiv was the first target of the Russian bombardment, it was Monday’s turn in the country’s western capital.s, Lviv, attacked by cruise missiles. According to local authorities, seven people were killed and eleven injured in the four attacks, three against military facilities and a fourth against a tire shop.
In Kharkiv, the main city in eastern Ukraine, At least 9 people were killed and 25 people were injured in the bomb attacks on the center and settlements, According to the regional military administration, which urged the population not to leave their anti-aircraft shelters during the day.