Likewise, the Russian Army launched more than 50 air strikes last night on the besieged city of Mariupol, practically devastated by Russian attacks. In this context, the UN has assured that it is preparing an evacuation attempt from the city.
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This Thursday marks the 64th day of war in Ukraine, and for the moment, the attacks in the areas besieged by Russian troops have not ceased. In the last hours the Russian Army has dedicated itself to concentrate troops and weapons in the Izium area, close to the Donbas region, bordering Russia. In addition, he has intensified his offensive to control this pro-Russian area and southern Ukraine.
As published on social networks the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, “the enemy continues offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk and maintain a land corridor with Crimea (in the south) temporarily occupied” by the Russians since 2014.
He also pointed out that the Russian troops are intensifying their warlike activity in almost all directions. The greatest offensive activities are registered in the addresses of Slobozhanskyinear Kharkov, and in Donetsk which, together with Lugansk, has declared itself an independent republic and both have been recognized by Moscow.
The bombings against Mariupol do not stop
Meanwhile, the attacks continue in Mariúpol. Last night, the Russian Army launched more than 50 air strikes on the besieged city of Mariupol, in southern Ukraine, and among the explosives there were “a large number of phosphorous bombs“, has denounced today the Azov regiment, integrated into the Ukrainian army and resisting in the city.
About five hundred members of this military group are surrounded, along with a thousand civilians, in the facilities of the Azovstal steel company, the only area of Mariúpol that has not yet been taken by the Russians.
Mariupolwhich initially had a population of almost half a million inhabitants, has been practically devastated by Russian attacks, whose troops say they have already gained control of the entire city, with the exception of the Azovstal steel plant.
In this context, the ONU has assured that it prepares a attempted evacuation of Mariupol, where at the moment more than 100,000 remain trapped by the siege of the Russian forces. “The UN is fully mobilized to help save lives and help those in need,” said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Osnat Lubrani, on his Twitter account.
Odessa sends troops to the border with Transnistria
After the incidents that have occurred in recent days in the Moldovan separatist republic of Transnistria, the defense forces of the Odessa region, in southern Ukraine and on the shores of the Black Sea, have reinforced the protection of the state border with Moldova.
This measure is adopted in the face of “a series of Russian provocations in the self-declared separatist republic of Transnistria,” Serhii Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odessa regional military administration, said Thursday on his Telegram account, quoted by the local Ukrinform agency.
Guterres urges Russia to collaborate in the investigation of war crimes
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, who is in Ukraine, stressed on Thursday the importance of the investigation into the possible commission of war crimes in the municipality of Bucha during the Russian occupation and urged Moscow to accept and collaborate with that investigation.
“I appeal to the Russian Federation to accept and collaborate with the international criminal court,” Guterres said during his visit to the Bucha mass grave, where he expressed his “full support” for the investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Source: Eitb
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