Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the situation in Donbass as “extremely difficult” in his last national speech on Saturday night, after the Russian army intensified its attacks on the cities of Slovyansk and Severodonetsk.
Zelensky said, “The Ukrainian Armed Forces is deterring this attack. The fact that our defenders turned away from these Russian attack plans and interrupted them is a tangible contribution to the approach of the main day. Victory Day.” said.
According to the Ukrainian president, “No Russian attack, neither with missiles in the Rivne region, nor with artillery in the Kharkiv or Sumy region, nor with all possible weapons in the Donbass, will yield any results to Russia.”
The head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergey Gaidai, said in a statement that the Russians are trying to occupy Severodonetsk from four directions.
“The bombing continues,” said Gaidai, adding, “The front-line city of Lugansk is at risk of siege after 12 people were killed and 40 injured in the Russian bombardment.”
Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner, Lyudmila Denisova, denounced that the Russians are concentrating their forces on the offensive against the city of Severodonetsk, Lugansk’s “turned into a new Mariupol”.
“The enemy attacks are constantly carried out in many areas, and the settlements are bombed by artillery rockets and target fire systems. The enemy has concentrated all its forces on the attack of Severodonetsk, on the outskirts of which there are constant battles. The city is turning into a new Mariupol,” he said.
Ukrainian police reported today that Russian troops opened fire on houses and civilian structures in the Donetsk region, and at least seven people were killed in attacks on the villages of Bakhmut, Soledar, Avdiyivka, Sviatohirsk, Mykolayivka, Toretsk, Zalizne, Raigorodok, Lastochkine, Pervomaiske. Yarova, Salt.
The officials stated that the Russians opened fire from planes and tanks, “The invaders opened fire on 12 settlements. There were dead and wounded. More than 40 houses, a college, a music school, an institute, workplaces and life support facilities were destroyed.” , heavy weapons and various rocket launchers.
Gaidai wrote in Telegram that the Russian army also destroyed a bridge between Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine, in the Lugansk region, “which will greatly complicate the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of humanitarian aid.”
According to the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, this bridge is being demolished for the second time, but at the moment there is still a “link between cities”.
“Today, the bombings in Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Belogorovka do not stop for an hour. The Russians use artillery day and night. Every life saved by these settlements is important to us today. The 57 evacuated people are now safe.” said.
Russian high-precision missiles destroyed 13 military installations, four ammunition depots and three Ukrainian command posts in Donbass in the past 24 hours, according to the Interfax news agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that among the targets hit by the Moscow military were “three batteries of multiple-barrel missile systems and a Ukrainian electronics station Bukovel, near the populated town of Annivka in the region.” mykolaiv
source: Noticias
