“Explosions in the Darnicki and Dnipro regions of the capital,” Klitschko wrote in the Telegram. “The services are already working on the spot. More details later “.
Explosions were heard early Sunday morning in Kyiv, according to the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
“Explosions in the Darnicki and Dnipro regions of the capital,” Klitschko wrote in the Telegram. “The services are already working on the spot. More details later “.
Earlier, an eyewitness told Reuters he saw smoke over the city after the blasts.
Earlier, air raid warning sirens had sounded for the most part Of Ukraineincluding Kiev.
Street fights in Sheverodonetsk
“Street battles” are raging in the center of Sheverodonetsk, a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces are concentrating their attack with the aim of controlling the entire Donbass Valley.
“The situation in Sheverodonetsk, where street fighting continues, remains extremely difficult,” he said. Volodymyr Zelensky in a video that aired early Sunday morning, in which he spoke of “air raids, artillery fire and continuous rocket fire.”
The city remains at the center of the Russian offensive in the Donbas Valley, to the east Ukrainewhich are partly controlled by pro-Russian separatist guerrillas since 2014 and which Moscow wants to bring under its full control.
Information on the situation of the forces there remains confused.
According to Russia, the Ukrainian soldiers are withdrawing from the city. “Ukrainian army units that have suffered heavy casualties during the battles for Sheverodonetsk (up to 90% in many units) are retreating to Lysitshansk,” a neighboring city, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
For its part, Kyiv claims that it is fighting for the recapture of the city. The Russian forces “have managed to enter the city and occupy a large part of it, dividing it in two. But our soldiers managed to grow again, to create a line of defense. “At the moment, they are doing what is necessary to regain full control,” Sheverodonetsk said, adding that Alexander Stryuk, the city’s mayor, was referring to “street fighting.”
Earlier, the governor of the Luhansk region, where Sheverodonetsk is located, Sergei Gaidai, had pointed out that “the first information indicates that (the Russians) have managed to take control of much of the city. “But now our forces are repelling them.”
After all, the fighting continues on other fronts. According to the Ukrainian Defense Minister, “Russia continues to make efforts to conquer our entire country.” The Kremlin, Olezi Reznikov noted, dreams of “gaining the territories” it considers “its own”, including “Poland, the Baltic states, Slovakia and others.”
Crimea, Donbass, southern Ukraine: Overall, Russia has tripled the area under its control since the beginning of its invasion, reaching 125,000 square kilometers, or 20% of the country, according to Zelensky.
In southern Ukraine, in the Kherson region, Moscow “continues to bomb the occupied territories and positions of the Ukrainian army,” said the Ukrainian presidency, which expressed concern about the outbreak of a humanitarian crisis in Russian-controlled areas.
The Russian military says it has destroyed “a bridge from which foreign mercenaries were deployed” near Dathnoye in Odessa Oblast, and fired rockets at an artillery training center near Stetskovka in Sumy province, where “foreigners were training Ukrainians. use of the M777 mortar “.
Mykolaiv port was also hit by rockets, as was an agricultural operation in the large port of Odessa, where “warehouses were damaged” and two people were killed, according to Kyiv.
