2024-03-24 17:27:39
Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the battles, here are the main points of the day.
The fact of the day
Russian forces launched new massive air attacks on kyiv and other regions of Ukraine at dawn. According to Sergii Popko, head of the Kiev military administration, the Russian army attacked the capital using cruise missiles fired from Tu-95MS strategic bombers.
Ukrainian defense “shot down about a dozen enemy missiles over Kiev and in the vicinity of the capital,” Popko wrote on the Telegram social network, specifying that according to preliminary information, there were no casualties or damage. Russian missiles and Iranian-made Shahed explosive drones also fell on the Striï district, south of the western city of Lviv, according to regional governor Maksym Kozytskiï.
According to Popko, the attack was launched from the Saratov region in southwest Russia. And for the third time in a week, the entire Ukrainian territory was placed on alert overnight. This alert lasted two hours in the capital.
The number of the day
18. The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 18 of 29 missiles and 25 of 28 explosive drones launched overnight from Saturday to Sunday. Damage was noted to urban, energy and port infrastructure in kyiv, as well as in the regions of Lviv (west), Kryvyi Rig (center) and the Danube area (southwest).
Today’s statement
“The Ukrainian armed forces managed to hit the Yamal and Azov amphibious ships, as well as a communications center and other infrastructure of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. » »
These are the words of the Communications Center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces which, in a press release, announced that it had once again hit two Russian ships in Crimea, having sunk many others since the start of the war. Ukraine launched strikes this Sunday on Sevastopol, in Crimea annexed by Russia in 2014, and seat of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Today’s trend
Poland will demand explanations from Moscow for “a new violation of airspace” by a Russian cruise missile, the Polish Foreign Ministry said.
The Polish army, in fact, declared on Sunday morning that a Russian cruise missile launched against towns located in western Ukraine had violated Polish airspace for around forty seconds. “The object flew into Polish space near the village of Oserdow (east) and remained there for thirty-nine seconds,” the army said on the X service.
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The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs indicated in the afternoon that “the ambassador of the Russian Federation would be summoned by Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to provide information and explanations.” “The rest of our action will depend on these explanations and this information,” added Andrzej Szejna on Polsat News television. “This is normal, because this is not the first time that Polish space has been violated by a missile from the Russian Federation. This is the third time, as far as we know,” he stressed.
Note that the town of Striï, targeted by the Russians this Sunday in the Aude, is located around fifty kilometers from the border with Poland, which has therefore also raised its alert level in the face of these bombings close to its territory.
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