Russia said on Sunday that an explosive drone attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea had injured six people, while officials in the southern Ukrainian town of Mykolaiv said they were facing the worst air strikes since the start of the war. .
Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvojayev posted the following message on his Telegram account: “This morning, Ukrainian nationalists have decided to ruin the Russian Fleet Day, which is celebrated in Russia this Sunday”.
He reported that a drone had landed in the garden and injured six among the staff.
Razvojayev said all Russian Fleet Day festivities were “canceled for safety reasons” and urged Sevastopol residents not to leave their homes “if possible”.
However, Ukrainian officials have denied that they are behind this unprecedented attack, calling Russia’s accusations “deliberate provocation”.
Serguii Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odessa (southern Ukraine) regional government, said in a video posted on Telegram that the announcement “the alleged attack by Ukraine on the headquarters of the Russian fleet in Sevastopol” was a “deliberate provocation”.
“The liberation of occupied Ukraine’s Crimea will take place much more efficiently,” he said.
In a speech in St Petersburg (northeast Russia), President Vladimir Putin announced that his Navy will be equipped with a new hypersonic Zircon cruise missile “without any barriers” “in the coming months”.
Noting that the Russian fleet is “capable of delivering a devastating response to anyone who decides to attack our sovereignty and freedom,” Putin noted that its military equipment is “subject to constant improvement.”
“Delivery of Zircon missiles to the Russian Armed Forces will begin in the next few months,” he said.
“They are stronger”
In southern Ukraine, officials in Mykolaiv said on Sunday that the city was the target of intense Russian shelling, possibly the “heaviest” since the start of the war, killing at least two people.
According to the city’s mayor, Oleksandre Senkevych, “strong explosions” were heard twice this morning.
The regional governor, Vitali Kim, reported that two people were killed, including a civilian couple.
Other attacks hit Kharkiv (east) and Sumy (northeast).
On Saturday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged residents of the Donetsk region to leave the region to escape “Russian terror” and the bombings in this region in the east of the country, which is largely under Moscow’s control.
“A government decision was made on the forced evacuation of the Donetsk region,” Zelensky said in a video.
“The more people leave the Donetsk region, the less the Russian army will kill,” he said.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has already announced the forced evacuation of the population of Donetsk, one of the two administrative regions of the Donbass industrial basin, where Russia has gained ground.
He justified his decision by the destruction of the gas network and the lack of heating in the region in the coming winter.
According to an estimate by Ukrainian authorities, at least 200,000 civilians live in areas not yet under Russian occupation in the Donetsk region.
“Camouflage Torture”
On Friday, the bombing of a site in the Donetsk region in Olenivka, which was occupied by the Russians and used as a prison for captured Ukrainian soldiers, left about fifty people dead.
According to Zelensky, “a deliberate Russian war crime”.
Ukrainian human rights official Dmytro Lubinetsk announced on Saturday that he had asked the Red Cross and defenders of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol (southeast) in May to leave the United Nations Human Rights Watch, which oversaw the negotiated surrender with the Russians. to Olenivka.
After weeks of siege and resistance at the steel mill, about 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered and Moscow announced that they would be arrested at Olenivka.
“When the Azovstal defenders left the factory, the UN and ICRC became the guarantors for the lives and health of our soldiers,” Zelensky said in a statement late Friday. He called on the UN and the Red Cross to “react”.
Russia has accused Ukrainian forces, which it rejects, saying Moscow or separatists are trying to “cover up the torture and executions of prisoners” there.
According to Dmytro Lubinetsk, based on an analysis of Russian footage, the explosion “happened from the inside” of the prison, not after a bombing.
source: Noticias
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