2023-04-15 17:00:16
► Eleven dead in Sloviansk
The day after a Russian strike on a building in Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine, the toll grew even heavier on Saturday, April 15. “The number of victims of the bombing of Sloviansk has risen to 11 people”Veronika Bakhal, the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian emergency service for the eastern Donetsk region, told television.
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A previous toll reported nine dead, including a two-year-old child, and 21 injured. Located 45 kilometers northwest of Bakhmout, the city of Sloviansk, which had 22,000 inhabitants before the war according to the Ukrainian authorities, was targeted on Friday by seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. The latter damaged five buildings, five houses, a school and an administrative building.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of “brutally bombard” residential buildings and “kill people in broad daylight”.
►Other victims in a bombing in Kherson
Two women also lost their lives on Saturday, April 15, in a Russian bombardment on Kherson, in the south of the country. The news was announced on Telegram by the head of the presidential administration, Andriï Yermak.
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► Bakhmout on the verge of falling according to Russia, Ukraine denies
For its part, the Russian military is claiming territorial gains on the northern and southern outskirts of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the epicenter of fighting for months and where Moscow’s forces have slowly advanced until they are controlled. the major part. “Wagner’s assault units advanced successfully, capturing two blocks on the northern and southern outskirts of the city”said the Russian Ministry of Defense on Telegram, noting the “most violent fights” you front.
The paramilitary group Wagner, led by businessman Evguéni Prigojine, is on the front line in this battle, supported by artillery and army paratroopers. According to the Russian ministry, Ukrainian troops “retreat and deliberately destroy infrastructure and residential buildings in the city in order to slow the advance” Russian forces. “The (Russian) airborne troops hold the enemy back on the flanks and support the actions of the assault groups in the capture of the city”he added.
Russia had affirmed, Friday, to push in the West of Bakhmout to seize the last part of this city, largely destroyed, still under the control of the Ukrainian army. The day before, she ensured blocking the Ukrainian forces in Bakhmout and preventing any reinforcements from entering it, suggesting that the city was about to fall.
Claims denied by kyiv, which claims to continue to supply Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmout and to inflict “crazy losses” to the Russians.
► Volodymyr Zelensky discussed with Emmanuel Macron his visit to China
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that he had discussed with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron his visit to China.
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“I had a conversation of almost an hour and a half with French President Emmanuel Macron (…) The results of President Macron’s recent visit to China were discussed”Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram.
Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China, whose remarks drew criticism in Europe and the United States, had been dominated by discussions of the war in Ukraine, Beijing being a close partner of Moscow.
Volodymyr Zelensky also said on Saturday that he had expressed to Emmanuel Macron his « gratitude » pour “to have condemned the terrible inhumane execution of a Ukrainian soldier by Russian war criminals”. This alleged execution was revealed in a video that went viral, the authenticity of which the authorities announced on Thursday.
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