In Russia’s war against Ukraine, the capital Kyiv is once again in the spotlight. Further air raids are also being reported from the west of the country, not far from the border with Poland. Follow the developments on War Day 17 in the star-Live blog.
Several cities in Ukraine reported renewed fighting and shelling on Saturday night. “Scumbags, they won’t let us sleep,” Vitaly Kim, the governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolayiv, wrote on Telegram on Saturday night. A few hours earlier, he had told a Ukrainian TV station that at least one person had been injured in the city of Mykolaiv and that several houses and cars had been damaged. Two fires also broke out in the city due to rocket fire. According to a local official, the city’s cancer clinic was also damaged.
In the capital Kyiv, flight alarms were triggered at least three times on Saturday night. According to CNN, “minutes of” shelling could be heard in the city from afar on Saturday morning. According to Ukrainian military information, the capital, like Mariupol, is under a “state of siege”. Ukraine’s General Staff warned that the Russian army was trying to knock out defenses west and north-west of the capital in a bid to “blockade” Kyiv. Meanwhile, the Russian army is also approaching the city from the north-east. Ukrainian soldiers told AFP reporters of fierce fighting for control of the main highway leading to Kyiv near Velyka Dymerka.
The most important news of the day in brief:
- all around Kyiv there are Russian offensives on the northern city limits near Sazymja and to the south near Wyschenky, the Ukrainian general staff announced on Saturday night. These offensives are in some areas partly successful.
- Russia has the targets of the night Attacks on western Ukraine expanded. Russian Air Force strategic bombers cruise missile in the cities Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk near the city of Lviv and in the south of the country Dnipro have used.
- At the former nuclear power plant Chernobyl technicians managed to part of the repair power lines. This was reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Friday evening, citing the Ukrainian operator.