Russian troops have reached a new front on this twenty-third day of war in Ukraine. For the first time, the Kremlin has attacked Lviv, a city in the west of the country, just 80 kilometers from the border with Poland and the only one among the large Ukrainian cities that had not been bombed so far.
Tonight, several missiles have fallen in the surroundings of Lviv airport: “They have reached the aircraft repair plant. Its buildings were destroyed by the impacts. Work on this plant had previously been stopped, so there are no casualties,” Mayor Andriy Sadovy said on Telegram.
The alert for future attacks is thus activated in the main city of the west while the bombs of the Kremlin continue to fall in kyiv for the fifth consecutive day. Early this morning there was a new attack in the northern part of the city, without further data having emerged at the moment. In the last days, at least four people have died by the bombardments in the capital, which have totally affected civilian buildings located in residential neighbourhoods.
The mayor of the city of Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, has also warned of an imminent bombing through his Telegram account: “Head to the nearest shelter!”Oleksandr Starukh said in a message to the population of the city, which was bombed for the first time since the invasion began this week.
Ukraine today reported the opening of nine humanitarian corridors to try to evacuate civilians from cities hit by bombing. As reported by the governor of Kharkov, Oleg Sinegubov, among these humanitarian ‘corridors’ there would be roads enabled for the populations of Balakleya and Izium.
Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vareshchuk has reported that, of the nine corridors enabled this Thursday, all have worked except the one in Kharkov. A) Yes, it was possible to evacuate 3,810 people from various places the country, some of them from besieged Mariupol.
“The Russians don’t want to open a whole corridor in Mariupol. Because if they wanted to, as was the case with Sumi, more than 100,000 residents would leave. Russian air strikes on meeting places and buses show only a conscious desire to destroy this city,” Vereschuk said. In total, more than 3.2 million Ukrainians have left the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, according to the ONU.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, will meet at noon with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to urge him to withdraw any support for Putin and force Russia to end the war in Ukraine: “We continue to appeal to all nations, especially those who have direct influence over Russia, to use that power to force Moscow to end this war of their choosing,” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “In particular, we believe that China has the responsibility to use its influence with President Putin and thus uphold the international rules and principles it claims to support,” he asserted.
Source: Lasexta
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