The Russian army “has started to regroup or rather to reshape its groups and is preparing for new actions in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut,” Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kirilenko said on Telegram on Friday night.
The Russian army continued yesterday Saturday the bombing of Ukraine and is preparing “for new actions,” according to Ukrainian officials.
The US, which continues to increase military aid to Kyiv, called on China to condemn “Russian aggression” in Ukraine and Britain welcomed the first group of Ukrainian soldiers to be trained there.
In the Donbassin eastern Ukraine which slowly comes under Russian control“the fierce blows of the Russian artillery do not stop even for a day, Sloviansk, Bakhmut, Avdika…“, complained the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky last night asking for more “modern and powerful” weapons.
“In one day, Russia hit Nikolaev (south), Kharkiv (southeast), Kriviy Rig (Zelensky’s birthplace in the east), villages in the Zaporizhzhya region (…) It hit (…) deliberately, therefore simple houses, political targets , people. There are victims, dead, injured“, he emphasized.
In eastern Ukraine, residents of the small town of Druzkivka, south of Kramatorsk, woke up yesterday Saturday to a rocket attack that opened a huge crater in front of a supermarket.
Russian forces, which earlier this month announced they had taken control of Lugansk province, have turned their attention to Donetsk with the aim of capturing the entire Donbass valley, which has been partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014. rebels.
At least one person was killed and two wounded in Kriviy Rig, according to Ukraine’s army general staff.
“New Actions”
For its part, the Russian army assured that it brought significant damage to the Ukrainian army and equipment in the Nikolaev and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In a statement, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the army bombed Donetsk and Kharkiv provinces, where, according to the local Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, six civilians were injured.
Zaporizhia’s separatist “authorities” accused Kyiv of has cut off gas supply to the area.
The Russian army “has started to regroup or rather to reshape its groups and is preparing for new actions in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut,” Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kirilenko said on Telegram on Friday night.
“The whole front line is being bombed incessantly,” he added.
Weapons and diplomacy
In the meantime, the vice president of the Ukrainian government Irina Vereshchuk yesterday called on the civilians in the areas occupied by the Russians to leave, warning “fierce fighting will break out”.
Zelensky also expelled five Ukrainian ambassadors abroad, among them the ambassador in Berlin, Andrii Melnyk, who had openly criticized Germany’s poor support for his country.
“A simple rotation, as usual”, however, the Ukrainian president assured.
At the same time, Zelensky thanked Washington for the new US military aid to Ukraine, amounting to 400 million dollars. This includes four Himars multiple rocket launcher systems and 155mm howitzers.
In total, Washington has so far provided $6.9 billion in military aid to Kyiv since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
For its part, Britain announced yesterday the arrival of the first group of Ukrainian soldiers as part of an “ambitious, new training program”, in which 1,050 British soldiers will participate, which was presented on June 17 in Kyiv by the now resigned Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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