Ukrainian armed forces continue to advance in the Lugansk region and announced on Tuesday 13 the liberation of another important city in the region, Kreminna. In total, according to official information, more than 300 towns and cities have been recaptured between this region and Kharkov since the beginning of September.
“Today Kreminna is completely empty, the Russian army has left the city. The Ukrainian flag was flown by the fighters who went there,” Sergiy Haidai, head of the Lugansk regional administration, told Ukrinform.
The representative also noted that the situation in nearby Lyman and Starobilsk is similar. In Svatove, the Russian army tried to regain control after fleeing.
Hanna Malyar, Kiev’s deputy defense minister, told Unian that about 3,800 kilometers in the Kharkiv region had been liberated by the country’s military in an area that is home to more than 150,000 people.
Also Tuesday, powerful explosions were recorded in two cities occupied by Russian troops since the start of the war on February 24. Kherson, the first town in the south of the country to be occupied, was heavily attacked.
“There are loud explosions in Kherson. It seems that the invaders are being hit very hard,” Ukrainian local government adviser Serhiy Khlan told portals. Unian even posted images of massive columns of black smoke across the city this morning.
Another occupation attacked is Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region, which has been under Russian control since February 25. The local mayor in exile, Ivan Fedorov, told the Kyiv Independent newspaper that “strong explosions” were recorded in the city.
“One of the explosions heard around 14:30 was at the Russian-occupied Melitopol airport,” he said.
Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the exiled mayor, told Ukrainska Pravda that three pro-Russian police officers were killed in a bomb attack by Ukrainian rebels in the town of Mariupol, which has become a symbol of the humanitarian tragedy caused by the war. .
“Resistance. We have confirmed that there was an explosion on Karpinsky Street in the Kalmyusi district by the occupying patrol who wanted to cancel and arrest our artists,” the representative said. said.
The recapture of many cities by Ukrainian military counterattacks has come under public criticism, even from allies of the Russian government, such as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who said “many mistakes” had been made.
source: Noticias
