2024-01-18 14:35:25
The war continues. Russia launched 33 Iranian-designed drones on Ukraine overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, as well as guided missiles on the large city of Kharkiv, in the east of the country, the Ukrainian army said. Air defense downed 22 of these drones, and Russian forces fired two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod border region, it said in a statement.
“The occupiers attacked with 33 Shahed-136/131 attack drones from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area and the Kursk region of the Russian Federation,” the Air Force said. Air defense systems in Ukraine’s eastern, southern and central regions shot down the attack drones, she added.
The head of the Kharkiv region announced that one civilian had been killed and another injured during the attacks carried out the day before on the North-East region. “The bombings killed a 62-year-old woman who worked in a boiler room. A 63-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman, who were injured, were hospitalized with moderate injuries,” he said.
Russian forces seized swaths of the Kharkiv region by force at the start of the invasion launched by Moscow in February 2022, but they were repelled a few months later by Ukrainian troops. The region is still subject to intense bombardment.
Potential spy arrested
At the same time, the Ukrainian security services (SBU) claimed this Thursday to have arrested a student who transmitted information to Russian forces on places where toxic products were stored with the aim of causing an “environmental catastrophe” in the south of Ukraine. Ukraine. Both Moscow and kyiv regularly claim to question citizens, foreigners or from their own country, who were preparing attacks on behalf of the opposing camp.
The SBU said it had detained an “agent” of the Russian security services (FSB) in the southern Odessa region. “The main task of this person was to identify and transmit the coordinates of the places where toxic substances are stored, in particular warehouses or pesticide storage sites,” the organization said.
Ukrainian services accuse Russian forces of having wanted to carry out “air attacks” on these places, using this information, in order to cause an “environmental catastrophe” in the area. The suspect, who faces life in prison, is a student at Odessa University, according to authorities.
Paris to deliver Caesar cannons to Ukraine
On the front of Western support for Ukraine, the Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu revealed this Wednesday evening in our columns that France would produce and deliver 78 Caesar cannons in a little over a year to kyiv. It is the flagship of French artillery. Ukraine currently has 49 Caesar cannons “which have enabled tactical successes”, according to Sébastien Lecornu.
Sébastien Lecornu also meets this Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov. “We must be persistent in our military aid to Ukraine. The logic of transferring equipment taken from army stocks is coming to an end. The solution now involves directly connecting French defense manufacturers to the Ukrainian army,” declared Sébastien Lecornu on this subject.
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