War in Ukraine: “Hell is in the Donbas”, denounced Zelensky

Ang bombing by russian troops against fifty populations in the Donbas caused widespread destruction and twenty deaths, in the context described by Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski as “hell”.

Ukraine’s own army says Russia is advancing in the Lysychansk and Severodonetsk areasin the eastern region of Luhansk.

Russia has intensified its bombing of the greater Donbas area, using great firepower to destroy the defenses around the city of Donetsk.

Zelensky denounced that Russian forces had “completely destroyed” the Donbas: “Hell there.”

deaths of civilians

Until 54 locations in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions They have been severely punished by Russian artillery over the past 24 hours, including the deaths of twenty civilians, the Ukrainian United Forces Group government reported today.

“According to operational information, about twenty civilians died under enemy fire and at least fifty people were injured,” the organization said in a Facebook message collected by the Ukrinform agency.

The operations of rescue and search is hindered by airstrike, intense missile strike and artillery shelling of Russian troops, he suggests.

The United Forces Group points out that “Moscow war criminals continue to destroy the infrastructure of the Donbas”, with damage to a hospital, a hostel, a sports complex and a shopping centeramong other buildings.

Hell

Zelenski described as “hell” the situation in the Donbas, where Russian troops tried to increase pressure, and affirmed that Russia’s attacks have no military explanation.

“The Ukrainian armed forces continue to advance the liberation of the Kharkov region. But in the Donbas the occupiers are trying to further increase the pressure. It’s hell, and it’s not exaggerationSaid Zelensky.

He referred to the “brutal and senseless shelling” of Severodonetsk, in which “in just one day there were twelve dead and dozens wounded.”

He also mentioned Russia’s attacks in the Chernikov region, especially the “horrible” attack on Desna, where Work continues to remove the remains and where many are deadin the ongoing attacks in the Odessa region, in the cities of central Ukraine, and in the “completely destroyed” Donbas.

Azovstal

The Russian Ministry of Defense was encrypted this Friday at 1908 the Ukrainian military who surrendered to Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, southern Ukraine, in recent days.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigú told a meeting of army personnel, aired on Russian television, that the blockade of his forces at the steel mill was continuing.

Shoigú made sure that the Azovstal metallurgical plant left as well “177 civilians, including 85 women and 47 children.”

He also told military commanders that Moscow forces would soon take the entire territory of the Luhansk region under their control.

“The liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic is approaching,” he added, noting that the militias of the self -proclaimed republics along with Russian forces “continue to increase control over the Donbas territories.”

Russia and NATO

Russia will create twelve military units on the western border before the end of the year to respond to threats from NATO and the future integration of Finland and Sweden into the Atlantic Alliance, Sergei Shoigu also said.

“Our closest neighbors, Finland and Sweden, have applied to join NATO. Therefore, tension continues to build in the area responsibility of the Western Military District, Shoigú said at the military meeting.

“We are taking proper countermeasures. Under these conditions, we are actively improving the combat composition of the troops. By the end of the year, 12 military units and subunits will be formed in the Western Military District,” he said.

The Russian Minister of Defense indicated that this year will also receive Russian troops over 2,000 modern weapons and military equipment.

According to Shoigu, in general, the situation on the western strategic flank “is characterized by increasing military threats near Russia’s borders.”

Source: agencies

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