The Russian Defense Ministry has warned employees of Ukrainian defense companies of upcoming attacks that will be carried out with high-precision weapons, according to the ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov.
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 on Sunday.
The warning from the Russian Ministry of Defense comes in advance of the planned attacks on these facilities to avoid endangering the lives of the companies’ employees.
On the other hand, Konashenkov warned that neighboring countries that allow Ukrainian warplanes to be stationed at their bases to be used later against the Russian Armed Forces risk being considered part of the armed conflict.
He assured that practically all Ukrainian aviation had been destroyed, while saying that he was aware that Ukrainian warplanes had previously flown to Romania and other bordering countries.
The Defense spokesman also added that the Russian Armed Forces discovered evidence of an “emergency elimination” of traces that point, he said, to a biological-military program developed in Ukraine and financed, he assured, by the United States.
Thus, the employees of the biological laboratories reportedly reported the emergency destruction, on February 24, of particularly dangerous pathogens, such as those that cause plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases.
For his part, the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, said on the same day that Russian forces are preparing to bomb the port city of Odessa, on the shores of the Black Sea, in southern Ukraine.
“They are preparing to bomb Odessa. Odessa! The Russians have always come to Odessa. They have always felt only warmth in Odessa, only sincerity. And now that? Bombs against Odessa? Artillery against Odessa? Missiles against Odessa? It will be a war crime. It will be a historic crime,” the president said in a new video message.
Secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov also said that Russia was preparing for the second wave of a large-scale offensive and was not giving up hope of taking Kiev.
“The Ukrainian Army is giving a decent pushback, and the day of our victory (…) is getting closer every day, but the enemy is still dangerous and is preparing a second wave of large-scale offensive, which we must approach together. ”, he said, according to the agency UNITED.
He noted that the cities of Kiev (north), Kharkov (east), Mariupol (southeast), Mykolaiv (south), Chernigov (north) and Odessa remain strategically important for the Russians.
“The enemy’s plan is to seize key cities, bleed the Ukrainian Armed Forces dry, create a situation of humanitarian catastrophe for the civilian population,” added the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
In addition, he indicated that the main focus of the Russian forces is shifting to the south, trying to deprive Ukraine of access to the Black and Azov seas, which, in his opinion, will create the conditions for the economic suppression of the Ukrainian resistance. , pick up EFE.
“The enemy does not lose hope of capturing Kiev and is creating resources for the encirclement of the Dnieper (river),” he stressed.
The Russian Armed Forces have entered Kherson this week, located next to the Dnieper River and on the shores of the Black Sea, and claim to control several cities on the coast of the Sea of Azov, although they still do not control Mariupol, the main port of that inland sea, but which they are subjecting to a blockade.
At the same time, at a time when the exodus of refugees already exceeds one million people, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, insisted that he will maintain his so-called “special operation” in Ukraine, which began on February 24, until the end of the resistance in that country to the invasion and accept the Russian demands, reports the Russian state agency RIA Novosti.
This was 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, Nafatí Benet; and the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
As reported by the Elysee, Putin has no intention of giving up the four objectives that he has set for himself with the invasion of Ukraine, and he will achieve them either by accepting Kiev or by going to 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 (eastern Ukraine).
Putin assured Macron that he has no intention of attacking nuclear facilities in Ukraine, after the Russian attack last Friday on the Zaporizhia plant, which caused a fire in an administrative building a few hundred meters from the six reactors and the fear of an expansion of the conflict.
Protests in Russia
Meanwhile, in Russia, several thousand people responded this Sunday to the call of the opposition leader Alexei Navalni to demonstrate against the war in the main Russian cities.
According to data provided by the Russian authorities, there were at least 3,500 detainees out of a total of 5,200 people who participated in the protests.
The largest was held in Moscow, with some 2,500 attendees, of which 1,700 were arrested. In addition, 1,500 people participated in a similar protest in Saint Petersburg, 750 of whom were arrested.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni had urged the country’s population from prison to “ignore the prohibitions” and come out this Sunday to demand an end to the invasion of Ukraine and protest against President Putin as the architect of the intervention.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of the Interior had warned the population not to participate in the protests, recalling that it will be punished with prison sentences, a notice that Navalni denounced as an act of repression. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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