In eleventh day Russian forces destroyed an airport in central Ukraine today and continue to siege in Mariupolthe large port in Azov.
The front lines do not seem to have changed significantly in the last 24 hours. The Kyiv remains under Ukrainian controlas well as Harkiv (Kharkov), despite the heavy bombings.
The following is the situation on the ground, based on the information of the journalists of the French Agency, the emergency services, the statements of Ukrainian and Russian officials, analysts, Western sources and international organizations. Moscow gives little information on the development of its military operations.
In the East
The HarkivUkraine’s second most populous city (1.4 million inhabitants), just 50 kilometers from the border with Russia, remains under Ukrainian control, according to Western observers, despite heavy Russian bombing.
Russian forces are also attacking from its separatist, pro-Russian territories Donetsk and his Luhanskbut it is unknown how much they have been promoted.
Fighting intensified around and inside the city Sumiwhere the Ukrainian government spoke of pounding and efforts to expel foreign students.
In Kyiv and the north
The Kyiv remains under Ukrainian control. Near Khostomel Airport, to the north, remains the phalanx of hundreds of Russian tanks.
Near Kyiv, in the city of Irpin, eight people were tragically killed by Russian bombing. Among them were two parents with their two children.
See the testimony of SKAI’s correspondent in Kyiv, Miltos Sakellaris, who was found near the bombing site
Clashes were reported in its vicinity Hostomelbut the phalanx has hardly moved in recent days.
Ukraine also retains control Chernihivnorth of Kiev, the center of which was pounded on Friday, killing many civilians.
In the south
The Russians besiege the Mariupol, who still resists. A second attempt to evacuate the city, this morning, “stopped”, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced. The two sides are blaming each other for who is responsible for the failure to evacuate the civilians.
The occupation of this city would allow the Russians to join forces that had invaded from the annexed Crimea (and have already occupied the cities of Berdyansk and Kherson while threatening, to the west, Mykolaif) with the forces of the Donbass separatists.
THE Odessa, where Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port is located, remains Ukrainian and has not yet been targeted by bombing. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of preparing to bomb it.
To the west
Western Ukraine has so far escaped the fighting. Its largest city, the Λβιβnow hosts foreign diplomatic missions, journalists and Ukrainians fleeing the east seeking refuge in the west or in a neighboring country.
Zelensky said earlier that the Russians had destroyed the airport in the city of Vinnytsia, which is 200 kilometers southwest of Kiev.
Victims
Russia announced last Wednesday that 498 Its soldiers were killed in Ukraine. This was the last report given by Moscow on its losses.
Ukraine and Western observers, however, say the losses are much higher. Kyiv speaks of 11,000 dead Russian soldiers.
At least 364 civilians have been confirmed dead in Ukraine since the Russian-led invasion on February 24, and another 759 have been injured, according to the United Nations.
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