Another day of clear skies, full sun and rising temperatures. Everything is going well in the big city of Kharkov, in eastern Ukraine. It was destroyed, but with the Russian army 40 kilometers away – it had become only 10 – the wind of rebuilding was blowing. The inhabitants are slowly returning, even for a moment, to their open air habits. Neighbors were seen heading to the markets to store supplies and volunteers working on removing debris to quickly reclaim their place. But Suddenly the thunder returned, this time there were no alarms against the aircraft sounding preventively, and the streets were empty. It’s at the same time Clarion He travels to the local bus terminal to travel more kilometers to the warm areas of the Donbas.

On Tuesday morning, a missile destroyed facilities in Gorky Park, leaving a family injured, in the heart of Ukraine’s second largest city. At night Kharkov was again hit by enemy fire and the morning was marred by reports of nearby explosions, an almost permanent sound of defensive anti-aircraft systems, which Clarion is a good witness.

The attacks were not isolated: in the last 24 hours, a hail of russian missiles unexpectedly began to fall on the entire territory of Ukraine, as if the invading forces had decided to make another distortion across the country. Russia seems to have responded, in a chaotic and unpredictable way (making the scenario even more dangerous), to the volume of reports that its army has weakened, to a kind of stalemate.

Both the Pentagon and the British intelligence services agree that Russia only has missiles, that it manages operations from the Black Sea or from Belarus, but meanwhile its combat units are demoralized and displaying distressing signs of fatigue. “Russia’s military is much weaker now, both materially and conceptually as a result of the aggression. Failures in their tactical planning and the execution of their operations have prevented their numerical strength from being translated into a decisive advantage. this scenario, together with the coming economic sanctions, can only be exacerbated ”, the British described.

Over the past few hours, eruptions have been reported in Kharkov, Odessa, Dnipro, Vinytsia, kyiv, Zapohiriya, Mikolaiv, Kherson and for the first time in Zakarpattia (i.e. behind the Carpathians), the westernmost point attacked by Russian. The counts of the casualties are still unclear.

The most surprising thing was the attack on Lviv, the city of refugees, the city where Ukrainians, in general, felt safe, on the other side of the country and very far from the total fighting in the eastern cordon . The same place where Hollywood actress and United Nations Ambassador Angelina Jolie, who had to evacuate, arrived this week.

In a tweet, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote: “Explosions in Lviv. Please stay in the bomb shelters!” Later, he said that “part of Lviv was suffering from power outages after the explosions, as a result of the rocket attack, two electrical substations were damaged. One part of the city was without electricity.” Ukrainian Railways reported significant delays in trains connecting the city due to the situation.

War is coming third stage. The first is characterized by the siege of kyiv. The second for the relocation of battles in the eastern cordon. The third, which has begun to take shape in recent days, is dominated by expectations formed on the date of May 9, when Vladimir Putin could declare, according to British information, total war against Ukraine and mobilize all the Russians in combat conditions to decide on an all-out attack. This is a growing reading. Similarly, the volume of weapons from NATO that Ukraine receives for this new moment is also growing.

On Tuesday, it said about 200 men were already accustomed to operating new and sophisticated weapon prototypes sent by the United States. Next week there will be a thousand and thus will increase the defensive possibilities of this country that is increasingly ready to fight.

Kyiv – Special Envoy

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