At least one dead and five injured in a missile attack on a shopping center and a product warehouse in the city of Odessa, the Operational Command in southern Ukraine reported on its official Facebook profile. “Obsolete missiles have managed to penetrate a shopping center and a warehouse for widely consumed products,” he said, adding that “the enemy continues to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure” in the city.
Throughout the day on Monday, and throughout the night, Odessa has been attacked with at least seven missiles and several fired from the Crimean peninsula, controlled since 2014 by Russia, according to local authorities. Before this attack on the shopping center and the warehouse, the Odessa City Council has reported in its Telegram account the impact in the region of at least four Onix missiles, one of the most modern high-precision projectiles that the Forces have. Russian navies.
During the weekend, there have also been bombings in other parts of the country, such as in the town of Popasna, where, as a result of shelling in the Lugansk region, critical infrastructure in Belogorov and Severodonetsk has been destroyed. Thus, the Vodokanal company, which ensures the supply of water to the area, has had to interrupt its service, according to the head of the regional military administration, Sergii Haidai, as reported in a statement on Monday by the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories.
In addition, the air alarms have also sounded in Dnipropetrovsk, according to the regional state administrator, who has said that in the town of Zelenodolsk several houses have been damaged by shelling. The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office has explained in its official Telegram profile that a violation of the laws and customs of war is being investigated because the Ukrainian authorities have found the body of three civilians who have been shot in the head in Makariv, in the kyiv region.
Tragedy in Mariupol; Azovstal in the spotlight
Meanwhile, the Russian Army continues its offensive in southeastern Ukraine, focused on the pro-Russian region of Donbas (which includes the rebel self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk) and in the coastal city of Mariupol, in the Sea of Azov, where it is trying to take over the facilities of the Azovstal steelworks. This is stated in the daily report published by the General State of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which expresses the fear that the Russians may carry out acts of sabotage at the facilities of the Ukrainian chemical industries in the areas they have occupied.
What happened in Mariupol has become a humanitarian tragedy. A UN observer mission suspects that “thousands of civilians” have been killed in the city as a result of the Russian invasion, which they will be able to verify when they gain access to this city that has been largely destroyed. The UN Human Rights Office has corroborated the death of nearly 3,400 civilians since the war began, “but the real figures are much higher, the great black hole is Mariúpol, where it is difficult to corroborate the information,” he pointed out. the head of the observers, Matilda Bogner, at a press conference in Geneva.
On the other hand, in the military report, it is stated that “the enemy is carrying out offensive operations in eastern Ukraine to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and to maintain a land corridor between these areas and the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula”. The Russians focus “the main efforts of the aviation group on supporting the activity of the units in the eastern operational zone: specifically in the directions of Slobozhansky, Donetsk and in the Azovstal steelworks area“, in the city of Mariupol.
There, in Azovstal, at least 100 Ukrainian civilians remain refugees in the facilities, according to an adviser to the city mayor, Petro Andriuschenko. The besieged city on the edge of the Sea of Azov has been completely blocked by Russian troops since almost the beginning of the invasion, on February 24, and the steel mill facilities have served as a refuge for hundreds of civilians and soldiers who are still enduring the siege
Enemy ships continue to carry out tasks to launch missile attacks against civilian and military infrastructure in Ukraine.”
On the other hand, “certain units of the Belarusian Armed Forces protect the border between Ukraine and Belarus in the Brest and Gomel regions.” In the Sumy region, in northeastern Ukraine and close to the northern border of Donbas, bombing continues. “The Russians fired MLRS rocket launchers against the border settlements of Velyka Pisarivka, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia and Yunakivka“, indicated the war report. And in Izium, bordering Donbas, the Russians replenished ammunition, fuel and logistics, in preparation for new operations on Lugansk and Donetsk.
On the other hand, and always according to the Ukrainian command, the “enemy ships (stationed in the Black Sea) continue to carry out tasks to isolate combat areasconduct reconnaissance, launch missile strikes against important civilian and military infrastructure in Ukraine, support coastal units and block civilian shipping.” During Monday, in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the Ukrainians successfully repulsed 15 enemy attacks, destroying an anti-aircraft missile system, nine tanks, three artillery systems, twenty-five armored combat vehicles, three units of special engineering equipment and three enemy vehicles, the military report said.
Source: Lasexta
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