NAfter a missile attack, a busy shopping center in the central Ukrainian city is dead Kremenchuk on fire. “The occupiers fired rockets at a shopping center where more than a thousand civilians were staying,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote to the Telegram news service on Monday. The fire brigade is on duty.
In a video that Zelenskyj spread, the burning building could be seen with thick clouds of dark smoke. At least 13 people were killed in the attack, according to Ukrainian sources. In addition, more than 40 people were injured, said the governor of the Poltava region, Dmytro Lunin.
“The rocket attack on the shopping center with people in Kremenchuk is another war crime by the Russians,” Lunin wrote. In the immediate vicinity of the shopping center there is a road construction machinery factory.
This picture, shared by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Instagram account, is said to show the mall after the attack
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Ukraine has been fighting off a Russian invasion for more than four months. The United Nations has so far recorded over 4,700 civilian fatalities, but like the government in Kyiv, assumes the number of victims to be far higher.
Ukraine prevents encirclement around Lysychansk
According to the Ukrainian military, west of Lysychansk repelled Russian attacks and thus prevented the encirclement of the strategically important city in eastern Ukraine. “Vicinity Verkhnyokamyanka Defense Forces inflicted significant casualties on the enemy and forced him to retreat,” Ukraine’s General Staff said in its situation report on Monday. Verkhnyokamyanka is only a few kilometers west of Lysychansk on the last important supply road for the city.
Lysychansk itself was again the target of heavy air and artillery attacks, according to Ukrainian sources. Russian units are already on the outskirts of the city in the south. Several suburbs have also come under fire. Several thousand Ukrainian soldiers are said to be stationed in the city.
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Ukrainian authorities are urging civilians to leave Lysychansk. “The situation in the city is very difficult,” writes the governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, Serhiy Hajday, on Telegram. Lysychansk is attacked by Russian troops, who had previously captured the strategically important neighboring city of Sievarodonetsk. Lysychansk is the last major Ukrainian bastion in the region Luhansk.
On the site of the chemical factory azot in Sieverodonetsk According to pro-Russian separatists, there are still around 500 civilians in eastern Ukraine. They cannot yet leave the plant because some of the crossings there are mined, said the representative of the Luhansk separatists in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, on Russian state television on Monday.
Lysychansk: A woman walks near a building destroyed in a Russian airstrike in Lysychansk
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There is also fighting a little further west in the room Bachmut. The city is an important transport hub. According to Ukrainian information, attacks by Russian units on a suburb were also repelled here. With the Russian advance on the metropolitan area Sloviansk-Kramatorsk there is little movement despite heavy artillery battles.
Artillery attacks in Kherson, rockets in Odessa
From the south of the country, in the area Kherson, the General Staff also reports Russian artillery attacks. At the same time, the Luftwaffe had flown “successful strikes” against accumulations of enemy troops there. This information cannot be verified independently.
When a missile hits the area Odesa six people were injured in southern Ukraine. The missile was fired by a Russian Tu-22 strategic bomber, the Ukrainian Defense Command South said on Monday. According to the authorities, a child is among the victims. It is not clear from the information whether the people involved were injured or killed.
“Because of the impact in the residential area of a civilian settlement, several houses and farm buildings were destroyed and set on fire in an area of about 500 square meters,” it said. The fire department is still fighting the fire.
Over the weekend, Ukraine reported a significant increase in Russian missile attacks on the country. A number of regions far behind the front were also hit – from western Ukraine Lviv above Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr up to after Chernihiv and Kyiv. In the south of the country it has, among other things Mykolayiv and hit Odessa.
London: Russia is increasingly relying on reservists
According to Great Britain, the Russian army will primarily rely on reservists in its war against Ukraine. The combat reserve consists of volunteer part-time workers, which are actually intended for security tasks in the rear of the front, said the Ministry of Defense in London on Monday, citing intelligence information. Battalions would probably be filled with veterans who have served in the past five years. “Despite an ongoing shortage of operational reservists for Ukraine, the Russian leadership is likely to remain reluctant to order a general mobilization,” it said.
Tactically, the Russian focus is still on the pocket around the neighboring stands of Sivyerodonetsk and Lyssychansk. But the British ministry also sees an additional plan: “A week of constant heavy shelling indicates that Russia is now trying to northern Izyum axis To gain momentum.” However, the Ukrainian armed forces would hold the line there, making good use of the forested terrain for defense.
The British Navy has no plans in bypassing the Russian blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports to help. “We’re looking at what we can do to help repair railways, we’re looking at a land bridge so we can get wheat across the land border,” Government Member George Eustice told Sky News. “It’s very, very dangerous right now to try to send ships into the Black Sea.” The area is mined and Ukraine itself has closed ports for security reasons, Eustice said.
US wants to deliver Nasams missile defense system
According to AP, the US wants Ukraine to have a state-of-the-art one missile defense system provide. US President Joe Biden will shortly announce the delivery of the Nasams system developed in Norway, which also protects the airspace around the White House, the AP news agency learned in advance from government circles on Monday morning. Additional ammunition for Ukrainian artillery and artillery reconnaissance radars from the US should also help the Ukrainian troops in Donbass in eastern Ukraine, it said.
Before the second day of the G-7 summit at Schloss Elmau, the Ukrainian President called on the heads of state and government of the seven leading industrialized countries for more help in the fight against Russia’s attacking troops. Russian aggression can only be stopped “if we get everything we ask for and in the time we need it – weapons, financial support and sanctions against Russia,” said Zelenskyj in his nightly video address on Sunday. The Ukrainian head of state is scheduled to join the G-7 deliberations this Monday morning.
According to two European diplomats, Selenskyj wants war in his country finished before the start of the next winter to have. Selenskyj said this to the G-7 heads of state and government via video link at Schloss Elmau.