We are entering the third week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Diplomatic channels continue without finding a solution to the war while thousands of Ukrainians have already fled the country. Only in the last day 40,000 people have left Ukraine through humanitarian corridors. An exodus that is testing the capacity of assistance at the border.
Meanwhile, the war continues. The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, denounces that Russia has not stopped the attacks in Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Without going any further, two Ukrainian cities have suffered new bombardments this morning. russian troops they have bombed Dnipro, the fourth most populous city in Ukraine with about one million inhabitants. The attacks have killed at least one person, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service. The agency has reported that some attacks occurred near a kindergarten and a residential building.
While, Igor Polischuk, the mayor of Lutsk (a city of 200,000 inhabitants near the border with Poland) has also reported having suffered bombings in recent hours: “Explosions near the airfield. Everyone to shelter!”said the councilor through Facebook, who has asked the neighbors not to publish photos or addresses.
For its part, the Russian Army has acknowledged having launched this Friday two “high-precision strikes” on two military airports located in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk (very close to the previous one), according to Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense and collected by several Russian agencies.
This is the first time these two cities have been attacked since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began sixteen days ago.
Later in the day, the Russian siege of Ukraine has widened. Local authorities in the Kharkov region have denounced that the Russian Army has bombed a psychiatric hospital in the town of Oskol where at least 330 patients were convalescing, although the attack has left no victims. The attack took place against the Psychoneurological Institute in the town of Oskil, in the center-east of the country and very close to the Lugansk combat front.
The explosion, caused by at least a projectile, caused “the destruction of the second and third floors” when “the entire staff of the institution and 330 patients (mainly elderly and disabled) were sheltered at the time of the attack”. Subsequent attacks have also caused damage to “local structures” in various places, authorities added.
The situation in the city of Kharkov is the protagonist of a BBC report, which for a week has accompanied the Ukrainian troops. The images, which can be seen hereThey show the worst of war. Corpses of soldiers lying on the snow in streets, empty avenues and completely razed buildings.
The Ukrainian authorities have denounced on several occasions that the Russian Army is deliberately shooting at various medical facilities in the country, especially in recent days in the city of Mariupol, which is located in the southeast of Ukraine and whose conquest is key to the country’s aspirations. of Russia to unite the Crimean peninsula with the rebel territories of Donbas.
To these attacks on life support in Ukraine Added to this are the daily attacks on the civilian population trying to flee the country, without safe humanitarian corridors. Precisely in Mariupol, thousands of people are on the edgewithout food, medicine, water or electricity and under constant bombardment.
Source: Lasexta
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