2023-05-27 05:01:00
Russia bombarded the Ukrainian city of Dniproleaving two dead and more than 30 injuredand came under heavy artillery fire in a region bordering Ukraine.
dnipro on fire
In the city of Dnipro, in the center-east of the country, a hospital that treated mental illnesses and a veterinary clinic were hit, said the mayor, Boris Filatov.
At leasts Two people died and 31 others were injured, including two children aged three and six, according to the regional Prosecutor’s Office, which added that in addition to the two medical facilities, nine apartment buildings, private homes and cars were damaged.
The central region of Ukraine was “massively attacked overnight with missiles and drones,” he said. Serguii Lysakhead of the military administration of this region in the center of the country, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, whose capital is Dnipro, the fourth most populous city in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, He posted a video showing badly damaged buildings and billowing columns of smoke. Local media published videos of rescuers helping people with bloody faces escape from the clinic through corridors littered with rubble.
“Another Russian missile attack, another crime against humanity,” Zelensky added. “Russian terrorists once again confirm their status as fighters against everything humane and honest. We must defeat these inhumans irrevocably and as soon as possible,” harangued
kyiv under fire
kyiv in turn said it had suffered the 13th Russian air attack overnight since the beginning of the month, this time with cruise missiles launched by Tu-95MS bombers from the Caspian Sea region. “According to preliminary information, all enemy targets in Kiev airspace have been detected and destroyed,” the capital’s military administration said, reporting no material damage or casualties.
Russia launched 17 missiles of different types and 31 Iranian Shahed suicide drones between 19:00 GMT and 02:00 GMT over kyiv and into eastern Ukraine, attacking critical infrastructure and installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian air defense systems shot down 10 cruise missiles and 25 drones, two of them reconnaissance, but in the Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk regions there were hits by Russian S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as drones.
In his daily morning part, the ukrainian military command noted 55 russian airstrikes in the last 24 hoursincluding one that damaged a dam in the Donetsk area in the east of the country, putting neighboring towns at “high risk of flooding.”
The spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Lieutenant Generall Ígor Konashénkov, He confirmed in his daily war report that he had carried out nighttime bombings in the Ukraine. “Russian forces attacked ammunition warehouses of Ukrainian troops and all assigned targets were hit,” he claimed.
Shelling in Belgorod
For its part, Moscow reported Ukrainian bombardments in the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, for the fifth consecutive day. In total, in the last 24 hours the region registered almost 200 artillery shots, mortar fire and drone attacks. whose explosives impacted a border control post, private homes, businesses and a cultural center that caused material damage, a woman was injured but no fatalities, reported the governor Viacheslav Gladkov.
The shots took among their targets the town of Kozinkain the Graivoron district, where a major armed incursion from Ukraine took place on Monday and Tuesday and claimed responsibility for by two groups of Russian exiles fighting Moscow forces. The town was hit by 132 shellsaccording to the governor.
The governor also claimed that the Belgorodski district, which surrounds the regional capital Belgorod, was hit by 14 shots, including from drones, one of which hit an administrative building and caused damage.
In Krasnodar, a Russian city 200 km from the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, two drones damaged buildings but caused no casualties, according to the governor, Veniamin Kondratiev.
These crossover attacks come as Ukraine says it has been preparing a counteroffensive against Russian forces occupying the south and east of the country for months, after receiving multiple Western arms deliveries.
In that sense, Russian diplomacy protested before the United States embassy over the “unacceptable statements” by President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, whom he accused of “approving” of the Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory.
belarus
In another flashpoint, Moscow’s ally Belarus said Thursday night that Russia had started transfer nuclear weapons on its territory, complying with the announcement made in March by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesmanDmitry Peskov, He did not confirm this information on Friday, and limited himself to noting that Belarus “faces unfriendly and even hostile attitudes from neighboring countries.” “Therefore, we must continue to develop and strengthen our relations with our allies (…) including in the military sphere,” added the spokesman.
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