The Russian Defense Ministry has warned employees of Ukrainian defense companies of upcoming attacks that will be carried out with high-precision weapons.
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Russia has intensified this Sunday the fighting and bombing in Ukraine, where the exodus of refugees already exceeds one million people and the siege tightens on the main cities.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has insisted today that he will maintain his so-called “special operation” in Ukraine, which began on February 24, until the resistance in that country to the invasion ends and he accepts the Russian demands, reports the state agency Russian RIA Nóvosti, citing government sources.
This has been communicated in a telephone conversation to several international leaders who this Sunday have unsuccessfully asked for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, such as the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Israeli Prime Minister, Nafatà Benet, or the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
As reported today by the Elysee, Putin has no intention of giving up the four goals that has marked itself with the invasion of Ukraine and will achieve them either by accepting Kiev or by war.
Those four demands are what Moscow calls the “denazification” of Ukraine, its demilitarization, the recognition of the independence of Crimea and the recognition of the independence of Donbas.
Attacks on military installations
The Russian Defense Ministry has warned the employees of Ukrainian defense companies of upcoming attacks that will be carried out with high-precision weapons, the ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, reported today.
The Russian Armed Forces will launch attacks against companies in the defense industry “in the framework of fulfilling the objectives” of what the Russian side calls “demilitarization of Ukraine”, Russian news agencies reported today.
The Russian Defense Ministry’s warning comes in advance of planned attacks on these facilities to avoid endangering the lives of employees of the companies.
On the other hand, Konashenkov has warned that neighboring countries that allow Ukrainian warplanes to be stationed at their bases for later use against the Russian armed forces risk being considered part of the armed conflict.
He has assured that practically all Ukrainian aviation has been destroyed, while saying he is aware that Ukrainian warplanes previously flew to Romania and other bordering countries.
Possible attack in Odessa
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Russian forces are preparing to bomb the Black Sea port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine. “They are preparing to bomb Odessa. It will be a war crime. It will be a historical crime,” the president said in a new video message.
For his part, the secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, has warned that Russia is preparing for the second wave of a large-scale offensive. In this regard, he has pointed out that the cities of Kiev (north), Kharkov (east), Mariupol (southeast), Mykolaiv (south), Chernigov (north) and Odessa (south) remain strategically important for the Russians.
The Ukrainian Army has assured that more than 11,000 Russian soldiers have died since the beginning of the Russian invasion and that they have also destroyed 285 tanks, 109 artillery systems and 48 helicopters.
Second evacuation attempt fails
The Russian attacks have interrupted for the second time the plans to evacuate the civilian population from the city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine and blocked by the Russian Forces, Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko and a member of the Azov Regiment of the National Guard. However, from the pro-Russian side it is stated that they have evacuated more than 300 civilians from the city of Mariupol, “despite the provocations of the Ukrainian nationalists.”
Russia puts the safety of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at risk, according to the UN
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned today that a Russian military officer is now directing the technical management of the Zaporizhia nuclear plant, bombed and taken over by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine, which contravenes basic principles for its safe operation.
“The management of the plant is now under the orders of the commander of the Russian forces that took control of the place last week,” reported the director general of this UN body, Argentine Rafael Grossi.
Grossi expressed his “serious concern” over a change that, he warned, contravenes essential pillars of nuclear safety, as the ability of technical personnel to “make decisions free from undue pressure” is limited.
Source: Eitb
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