Since the war started in western Ukraine LvivThe cradle of Ukrainian nationalism served as a logistics hub to supply the rest of the country and shelter moderately trustworthy For the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who either temporarily settled on their border or used it as a transit point before leaving the country for the Polish border, just 70 kilometers away. This russian attacks had left him largely unscathed, at least a model that broke on Monday four missiles fell on the city in the first hour of the morning. 7 people died in the bombing According to Ukrainian officials, a dozen more were injured. “Already there is no safe place In Ukraine,” said the mayor of the city.
This is the main reading of the remaining attack. First deaths in Lviv since the start of the occupation Russian. Previously, the war machine had attacked a gas tank and a tank repair tank without causing any casualties. And before that, a military base a few kilometers from the city, where 35 dead were found. this time Kremlin missiles reached three military installations (including so-called empty warehouses) and mechanic workshop The whereabouts of the victims, according to local authorities. “The Russians continue to barbarously attack Ukrainian cities from the sky, while mockingly proclaiming to the whole world their ‘right’ to kill Ukrainians,” said the adviser to Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak.
Preliminary results from Kiev show that the missiles were launched from there. War warriors in the Caspian sea, more than 2,000 kilometers from Lviv. “What is the logic here? Are they really that stupid?” his Russian rival wrote on Twitter, Ivan Zhdanovafter concluding that the cost of the Kalibr missile, which destroyed the tire spare parts workshop, was around six million euros.
hundreds of bombings
same fire rain It was repeated in many regions of Ukraine. Not in vain, according to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, launched aviation over a hundred airstrikes both in the morning 315 artillery salvoswhich would destroy 16 military targets In the Dnipro regions, DonetskZaporiya he Jarkov. In the capital of the latter, the country’s second-largest city, at least two deaths, both civilians, occurred after a bullet fell “near several residential buildings,” according to local officials.
everything shows that The intensity of the bombardments increased Since Russian troops withdrew from northern Ukraine, unable to take even one of its major cities. consolidate their position in the south and overcome the resistance they continue to encounter. oriented industrial from the country. It is compounded by the advance of his troops on both axes. nationwide air strikesAccording to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, attacks from Kiev to Lviv have increased by 50% in recent days.
This DonbasMining and industry, with an ethnically more Russian population than in other parts of the country, is now the priority of the Russian Army and its allies in the separatist region, with long-running war of attrition since 2014. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense continues to argue over the fact that Russian forces have taken full control of Mariupol. He claims that his troops continue to resist in the area. Azovstal plantOne of the largest metallurgical companies in Europe, with an area of 11 square kilometers.
Pockets of resistance in Mariupol
Experts consulted by the BBC say that between 600 and 800 Ukrainian soldiers, most of them the controversial Azov Battalion, could be found in the city, which was brutally punished by the Kremlin attack. “there is a plant nuclear bunkers and tunnels. It was built to survive a nuclear conflict, so it was well-prepared to be defended,” said Justin Crump, military expert at Sybilline. I suspect they’ll last a long time unless the Russians raze it to the ground.”
Although the war continues unabated, Thousands of Ukrainians continue to return to their countries after putting soil in their midst since the beginning of the occupation. they are already back more than a million people, according to customs authorities. The number of Ukrainians who entered the country for the first time on April 16 exceeded those who left on the same day.