2023-04-29 09:32:18
Search for buried persons continues 0uman
After the bombardment in the night from Thursday to Friday in Ouman which left 23 dead, the search continues. Currently, the emergency services are working on the site of a 9-storey building to find out if survivors could have been trapped under the rubble. “In total, 247 cubic meters of construction debris have been removed. Now the dismantling of structures and the search for potential victims are underway,” the Ukrainian state emergency service said on Facebook. For now, the toll in Ouman is twenty-three people killed, including four children, and 18 injured. At the same time, 17 people were rescued.
Biden plans to visit Finland, new NATO country
Joe Biden, the President of the United States plans to visit the newest member of NATO, Finland. This could be done in July at the same time as the military alliance summit in Lithuania, according to NBC News.
A burning fuel depot in Crimea
A fuel depot in the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea is on fire after a suspected drone attack. “According to preliminary information, the fire was caused by drone fire,” confirmed pro-Russian governor of the region Mikhail Razvozhaev. Russian officials today blamed the attack on Ukraine. According to the governor, no one was injured and the fire situation is under control.
Kherson region attacked 33 times in 24 hours
According to Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson regional military administration, the Russians in the last 24 hours fired 177 shells from heavy artillery, tanks, Grad MLRS and drones in the Kherson region. “The city of Kherson was hit five times by Russian troops,” he said, adding: “Russian soldiers targeted residential areas and the Bilozerka hospital”. According to him, the body of a woman was found under the rubble of her own home after the fire was extinguished.
Sabotages, Western armour… What could the Ukrainian counter-offensive look like?
98% of the material promised to kyiv by the West would have been delivered. Ukraine now has all the cards in hand to carry out its long-awaited counter-offensive. Our article.
A Bakhmout, the bloodthirsty
Despite frontline support from paramilitaries of the Wagner Group, Russian forces are tirelessly breaking their teeth on Bakhmout, an eastern city they have been trying to take since last summer, the longest and bloodiest battle of this war. For Moscow, it’s about claiming victory after several humiliating setbacks last year. The clashes there have become harsher because Russian special forces are now fighting in the city, according to the Ukrainian army.
Near Bakhmout, Alex, 34, is about to go to a trench on the front to defend the city. “We are short of soldiers, we have many wounded, and also dead (…). Sometimes in the trenches, you have to hide behind a corpse. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Ukrainian or another, it’s the only way to survive,” he said.
Kiev explains its strategy of attrition war in the area to limit as much as possible the possibilities for the Russian army to continue its conquest of Donbass, a large industrial basin in the eastern part of Ukraine.
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