Bin a Russian attack on a hospital in Ruby Ne One person was killed and three others injured in eastern Ukraine on Sunday. An enemy shell hit the city’s hospital, the governor of the region, Serhiy Gayday, said on Sunday evening in the messenger service Telegram. He posted a photo of rescue workers sifting through debris. The city near Luhansk in the Donbass region has been the target of repeated bombing raids since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Also in the southern Ukrainian city Mykolayiv one person died in a Russian attack. 14 other people were injured, including a 15-year-old, Governor Vitali Kim said on Telegram. Also in the Black Sea city Ochakiv there had been a bomb attack, he added. There were also dead and injured there, the exact number is unclear.
After withdrawing from the region around the capital Kyiv, Russian troops are concentrating on southern and eastern Ukraine, according to Kiev. But attacks are also continuing in the region around the capital. Russia on Sunday confirmed an airstrike on a control center at the air force base in Vasylkiv not far from Kyiv.
in the Russian Belgorod According to eyewitnesses, explosions were heard near the border with Ukraine. The cause was initially unclear. Two days ago, according to Russian reports, Ukrainian military helicopters attacked a fuel depot in Belgorod, Ukraine denied the report.
Missiles fired at oil refinery
According to Russia, it attacked targets near the Ukrainian port city Odesa on the Black Sea. The Defense Ministry said on Sunday in Moscow that rockets had been fired from ships and planes at an oil refinery and three fuel depots. The city council of the metropolis with around one million inhabitants had previously reported fires in the city area. Later, the mayor of the city of Mykolaiv, around 130 kilometers to the south-east, Olexander Senkewytsch, also reported on several rocket attacks. Initially, there were no further details.
According to Russian information, a total of 51 military facilities were hit in Ukraine on Sunday night, including four command posts and two missile defense systems. This information could not be independently verified. Since the war began on February 24, the Russian army says it has destroyed a total of 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 88 helicopters, 383 drones, 221 missile defense systems, and 1,903 tanks and other armored vehicles.
Moscow claims to attack only military targets in the neighboring country. Ukraine, on the other hand, accuses Russia of also shelling civilian infrastructure and residential areas.
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Moscow claims to attack only military targets in the neighboring country. Ukraine, on the other hand, accuses Russia of also shelling civilian infrastructure and residential areas.
“Odessa was attacked from the air,” said Advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko. “Fires have been reported in some areas. Some of the missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft guns. It is recommended to close the windows.” According to the Odessa city administration, an important part of the “infrastructure” was hit. “We hope that there will be no deaths,” says city spokesman Sergei Bratschuk.
Eleven Ukrainian mayors kidnapped
According to information from Kyiv, eleven mayors have been kidnapped since the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Officers from congregations in the regions Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk are in Russian “captivity,” said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Sunday. The mayor of Motyschyn near Kyiv, Olga Sucheko, and her husband were arrested by Russian soldiers and then killed. The Ukrainian prosecutor announced the kidnapping of Sucheko and her husband a week ago.
“We’re informing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN and all sorts of organizations, just like we did with the other missing civilians,” Vereshchuk said. She urged “everyone to do everything in their power to bring her back”.
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday it had documented several cases of possible war crimes against civilians by Russian forces in occupied territories in the Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions. These included one case of repeated rape and two cases of execution. In one case it was the execution of six men, in the other case it was one man. Russian soldiers have also been accused of looting, HRW said.
Regained control of areas in the north
According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army had the region around the capital on Saturday after weeks of fighting Kyiv and other areas in the north regained full control. “Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and the entire region Kyiv were liberated by the invaders,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Facebook on Saturday. The military leadership assumed that the Russian troops would subsequently concentrate more on the south and east of the country. There would be a “rapid retreat” of Russian troops in the north of the country.
The Russian troops had already withdrawn from the suburbs north-west of Kyiv in the past few days irpin and Bucha withdrawn after their failed attempt to encircle the Ukrainian capital.
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After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the north-west of the Ukrainian capital, shots of corpses on the streets of Bucha caused international horror.
Ukraine has recovered the bodies of a total of 410 residents in the region around the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova wrote on Facebook on Sunday evening. Coroners and other specialists are on duty to examine the bodies and start investigations. Ukraine blames the massacre on Russian troops who until recently occupied the small town. Moscow denies that.
According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the retreat of Russian troops near Kyiv is not a real retreat. It is more of a repositioning that could be followed by further attacks. The war must end, says Stoltenberg on Sunday on CNN. It is the responsibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin to do so.
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