Time.news – Two days after the great military parade to be held in Moscow to celebrate Russia’s victory in the Second World War, in which a speech by Vladimir Putin is scheduled, Russian troops continue the offensive in the east and south of Ukraine, while the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steelworks continues in Mariupol.
In the last few hours Russian forces blew up three road bridges to slow the Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv and they launched missiles on the city of Sumy, which is located in the north of the country, near the border with Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that three ammunition and fuel depots were destroyed in an air raid on the outskirts of Odessa.
Russians denounce new explosions in the Moldovan region of Transnistria and the pro-Russian leader and head of the autonomous government of the 2014 Moscow-annexed Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said that the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson “was liberated by nationalists” and from the “control of Kiev”.
The Kiev authorities for their part reported that the Russians have launched four cruise missiles on the territory of Odessabut no casualties were reported.
The missiles were launched by the Russian air force, which “continue to inflict material damage on the region’s infrastructure and exert psychological pressure on the civilian population”, according to a note from the Ukrainian armed forces posted on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
The Ukrainian army also claims to have destroyed another Russian boat, namely a landing ship (yesterday it claimed instead of having hit a Russian frigate off the Snake Island with a rocket).
According to British intelligence, the war “is putting a strain on some of Russia’s most capable units and most advanced capabilities”which will therefore need “a lot of time and money to reconstitute its armed forces after this conflict”.
In particular, the British 007 add, for Moscow “it will be particularly difficult to replace modern and more advanced equipment” because the sanctions “limit Russia’s access” to microelectronic components that are “decisive”.