The Ukrainian army won some victories and liberated many places in the south of Ukraine, including the village of Shevchenko, which was visited by the RFI report. Its inhabitants are relieved but horrified by the traces of devastation left by the Russians. Clashes in eastern Ukraine continue to be fierce.
A large crater is visible in front of the school. A deep stigma from the passage of the Russian army that bombarded the village and settled there temporarily before being repulsed.
Ukrainian soldier Dimitro said, “It was a Totchka-U rocket bombardment. I don’t know what the Russians were aiming for. Maybe they thought we were there even though it was a school. We took the village, it was happiness and happiness. It was also pain. When the Russians go, they leave only destruction behind.”
When the Russian army passes by, leaving a field of ruin, Ukrainians call it “Russian peace.”
Listening to the news on his old radio, Mikolai Ivanovich shakes his head and bursts into tears remembering that his homeland has finally been liberated: “We are happy. Ukraine will always be Ukraine. Ukraine was and will be. I was born here. My parents were born and buried here. When death comes, you have to be close to your parents. “
“I don’t know if the war is over”
Mykolai Sergeievich, limping with an injured leg, points to a rocket behind his house. The old man, who does not know whether it has been detonated before, says he is disgusted with this weapon. He sends a message to the Russians: “Go home. Leave our land. We will stay strong and not surrender Ukraine to Russia. I don’t know if the war will end or our people will be friends.”
Shevchenko is just a few kilometers from the front and bombs continue to fall on the area. But the Ukrainian military says it is preparing a massive counterattack to liberate the entire south of the country.
eastern ukraine
In the eastern part of Ukraine, national and Russian forces were engaged in “intense combat” on Tuesday (7) on the streets of Severodonetsk, a strategic city in the eastern region of Donbass.
“Our heroes are holding their positions in Severodonetsk. Intense street fighting continues,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday night, hours after warning that Russian troops were “more numerous and stronger”.
Severodonetsk mayor Oleksandr Striuk announced that “the situation is changing hourly” with “intense urban conflicts” in the city that Kiev controls in the Lugansk region.
The Ukrainian General Staff said in Tuesday’s first bulletin that this industrial city is “the heart of the enemy’s target”, and that plane and helicopter attacks in the neighboring Donetsk region were also noted.
The two eastern Ukrainian regions make up the Donbass mining basin, which since 2014 has been partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists and has been Moscow’s primary target as it has given up its conquest of Kiev.
“The main enemy efforts are focused on an attempt to completely control Severodonetsk and ‘block’ its troops in Lyssychansk, nearby Kiev,” the Ukrainian military said. Said.
“Our soldiers are in control of Severodonetsk, fighting continues in the east,” the military statement said.
wheat blackmail
The invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 and the continued challenges Covid-19 has caused in supply chains are raising fears of a global food shortage.
The two warring countries were producing 30% of world wheat exports before the war. But Zelensky warned that Russia’s blockade of Black Sea ports has brought up to 25 million tons of grain to a standstill.
“In the autumn (in the northern hemisphere, in the spring in Brazil) the number can reach 70-75 million tons,” said the President.
In addition to the blockade, Ukrainian officials have condemned accusations that Russia is stealing grain reserves and selling them for their own interests, which US diplomacy finds “believable”.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Putin of trying to “blackmail” Western powers to end sanctions against Moscow.
“A Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea is preventing the Ukrainian harvest from going to its normal destinations,” Blinken said. Said. “This is all deliberate.”
Kyiv announced that it is discussing the creation of sea corridors with Turkey and the United Kingdom, and smaller quantities of exports by land with Poland or the Baltic States.
Also, Kyiv announced that its Armed Forces had caused the Russian fleet to retreat more than 100 kilometers from the coast.
source: Noticias
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