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At least 20 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the bilhorod-dnistrovsky district, in the Ukrainian region of Odessa, while the troops of Moscow maintain the siege against the city of Lisichansk, in the east, where the war is concentrated.
“Odessa region. At 0830 local time 18 people died, including two kids. Thirty are wounded, “the deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, wrote in his message on Telegram. Hours later, the death toll rose to 20.
On its Facebook page, the Ukrainian emergency service confirmed the missile attack, which it attributed to the Russian army, and which occurred at 6 am local time.
Ukrainian authorities examine one of the bombed buildings in Odessa. Photo: Oleksandr Gimanov / AFP
Day 128 of the war: Russian troops attack the city of Lisichansk from four directions and against civilian targets in the southern Odessa region
“Following a missile attack by the (Russian) strategic aircraft Tu-22 from the Black Sea in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district of the Odessa region at night, three X-22 missiles hit a multi-story apartment building and two recreation centers, “Tymoshenko said in his latest report.
The emergency service explained that one of the missiles had hit a nine-story residential building that had been partially destroyed.
The Odessa region, whose capital of the same name has the only seaport in Ukraine which the Russians do not yet control, borders on Moldova and Romania.
Lisichank fence
Russia has assured that Russian and pro-Russian forces have reached the gates of the city of Lisichansklast stronghold under Ukrainian control in the eastern Lugansk region to the east, after taking control of a refinery and other industrial areas to the south and southeast.
“The allied forces (Russian and pro-Russian) are directly on the doorstep of Lisichansk,” Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said in his report on the morning war.
According to the representative in Russia of the self-proclaimed Lugank People’s Republic (PLR), Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian forces have doubled their offensive against the city of Lisichank, where They attack from four directions.
He added that from the south, in the area of the RTI rubber factory, his troops “not only entered the city, but carried out ‘cleaning operations’ in the surrounding blocks.
For its part, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on its Facebook page, confirms that the Russians attack with artillery the few positions Ukrainians hold in Lisichansk.
A man observes the giant crater left by a missile in eastern Ukraine. Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP
Russian troops are trying to encircle Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of the city of Lisichansk, in the Lugansk region, from the south and west, to gain control of the last important Ukrainian enclave in this eastern region that they have been besieging for days.
Another tomb in Mariupol
Another mass grave was found in Mariupol with more than a hundred bodies, according to the adviser of the mayor Petró Andryushchenko, who added that the exhumations in this Ukrainian port city were permanently paralyzed.
The streets of Mariupol have become graves. Photo: Reuters
“Tsad discoveries every week. A new mass grave under the rubble on the left bank. Again, more than a hundred bodies of people since the end of February, “Andryushchenko wrote on Telegram.
“The occupants remove the rubble from the vicinity and, again, there is no talk of burying them again“and added that” people actually still live in crypts. “
According to this city councilor, the Russian authorities “are so determined to create a shooting image that they fail to bury. Temporary street graves are slowly becoming permanent“.
more dead guys
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army has already killed at least 343 children in the countryand 635 were injured of varying severity, the Ukrainian Attorney General’s Office reported Friday on its Telegram channel, local news agency Ukrinform reports.
More than 978 children were affected in Ukraine following a large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation.
In addition, daily Russian air and artillery attacks were damaged 2,102 educational institutions throughout Ukraine, 215 of which were completely destroyed.
At least this is reminded by the Ukrinform agency 4,731 civilians died since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, but the real figures are considerably higher, as it is difficult to count them due to the fighting.
the island of snakes
The President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelensky believes that the withdrawal of Russian troops from the zmyinyi island, also known as Snake Island, in the Black Sea, “significantly changes the situation” in that area for the Ukrainian army.
Zmiinyi Island, also known as Snake Island, in the Black Sea. Photo: AFP
Russia announced Thursday that it would withdraw from this small but strategic Black Sea enclave as “a gesture of good will”as Moscow explains, although Ukrainians believe it is because the Kremlin cannot maintain its strategy in the area after losing several ships.
“The island of Zmiinyi is a strategic point and significantly changes the situation in the Black Sea. Still no guarantee of safety, still does not guarantee that the enemy will not return. But it already severely limits the actions of the occupants. Step by step we will expel them from our sea, our land and our sky “, said the Ukrainian leader in a speech posted on his website.
However, according to the Ukrainian president, the situation in Donbas, which includes the Lungansk and Donetsk regions, “it’s still the most difficult, extremely difficult”mainly because of the “superiority to fire of the occupants”.
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