The Russian military has launched a high-precision, long-range attack on two military air bases in the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, rendering them non-operational, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
He noted that since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian forces have destroyed more than 3,210 military infrastructure and equipment of Ukraine.
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The cities of Dipnro and Lutsk were hit for the first time by the Russians
Cities were targeted for the first time today by Russian raids Dipro and Lutsk in Ukraine.
One person has died in Dipro, according to the Ukrainian Emergency Services (SES).
“At around 6:10 a.m., there were three air raids on the city, hitting a kindergarten and an apartment building,” SES said. A shoe factory was also hit, causing it to be engulfed in flames.
The Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkov, where an experimental nuclear reactor is located, was targeted by the Russian military late at night.
Pro-Russian separatists occupied the city of Volnovacha
Earlier, Konashenkov said pro-Russian separatist rebels had captured the Ukrainian city of Volnovacha, north of Mariupol, a port city in the Sea of Azov that has been under siege by the Russian military for days.
Volnovacha is considered of strategic importance as it is the northern gateway to Mariupol.
The TASS news agency, citing an anonymous source, reported that about 222,000 people had fled from Ukraine to Russia and the two breakaway provinces in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Pictures of disaster in Mariupol set remains under siege while the explosions are continuous.
Zelensky: The Russians prevented the evacuation of civilians
In his new sermon during the night, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russian army of obstructing the evacuation of civilians from the besieged cities of Mariupol and Volnovacha and of launching an “attack” on the planned humanitarian corridor trajectory.
About 100,000 people have been evacuated from several parts of Ukraine over the past two days via humanitarian corridors, according to Zelensky.
Russian reorganization for attack in Kyiv, “sees” London
Russian forces in Ukraine are likely to seek to redeploy and redeploy so that to launch new attacks tin the coming days, estimates the British Ministry of Defense.
In the morning briefing on the developments on the Ukrainian front, the ministry said that these new attacks will most likely include operations against Kiev.
Satellite images of disasters on the outskirts of Kiev
New satellite images of disaster on the outskirts of Kiev published the American company Maxar.
Photographs taken Thursday show a fire at a fuel depot at the Russian-controlled Antonov base in Hostomen, a northwestern suburb of the Ukrainian capital. Dense black smoke appears to be coming out of the damaged warehouses.
The images also show damage to apartment complexes in Borodyank, a city northwest of Kiev. CNN reports that these apartments were destroyed by Russian airstrikes.
Another satellite image in a warehouse near the borders of Kiev in Soyanka has been delivered to the Flames.
In Chernihiv, which is about 130 kilometers from Kyiv, a supermarket was destroyed.
Kyiv will no longer buy nuclear fuel from Russia
The Ukrainian state’s nuclear energy company, Energoatom, will no longer buy nuclear fuel from Russia, according to a statement issued today.
Ukraine has Soviet-era nuclear reactors and imports its nuclear fuel from Russia and the United States.
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