“Russia is trying to divide Ukraine in two to create a Moscow-controlled area after it failed to occupy the whole country,” the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Sunday.
He noted that this was in fact an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine, said Kyrylo Budanov, adding that Ukraine would soon start a guerrilla war in the Russian-occupied territories.
Alongside, the regional governor of Kharkov reports that Ukraine has recaptured several villages from Russian forces in a series of counterattacks, including east of Kharkov and northwest of Mariupol.
He added that some villages around Malaya Rogan had been recaptured by Ukrainian forces. The video verified by CNN shows the Ukrainian troops controlling it Βιλχίβκα, one of the settlements about 20 miles from the Russian border. The success of the Ukrainian forces around Kharkov is reflected further north, near the city Sumi, where troops have liberated a number of settlements. A separate counterattack in the south also led to the liberation of two villages by Russian forces northwest of Mariupolaccording to the Zaporizhia Regional Military Command.
Fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces is also taking place in the wider area Donbass areaas Moscow reported on Friday the first phase of the “military operation” has been completed and are now focusing on its release Donetsk and Lugansk.
In a recent briefing, the General Staff of Ukraine stated that it repulsed seven hostile attacks in the regions Donetsk and Lugansk of Donbass, destroying eight tanks.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry spoke of a battle for control of two villages near the Donetsk separatist stronghold and also claimed that a rocket attack had destroyed a weapons and ammunition depot in the area. Zhytomyr, west of Kiev, the manufacture.
The Russian-backed self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine could soon hold a referendum on joining Russia, local leader Leonid Pasetsnik said today.
“I think in the near future a referendum will be held in the territory of democracy,” Pasetsnik was quoted as saying by a local news outlet. “People will exercise their ultimate constitutional right and express their opinion on joining the Russian Federation.”
Last month, Russia recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Lugansk and Donetsk and shortly afterwards ordered the launch of what it called a peaceful operation there.
Earlier, the Russian military confirmed yesterday missile attacks at fuel depots in Λβιβ and outside Kyiv, saying it aimed to destroy fuel supplies for Ukrainian troops. At least five people were injured when at least two rockets hit Lviv.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attacks were carried out with six high-precision Cruise missiles, while it confirmed that Russia had hit a fuel depot used by the Ukrainian forces and a factory used to repair anti-aircraft systems, radar stations and radar stations. for tanks.
It also said it had shot down a number of drones and fired long-range missiles from the sea to destroy an S-300 missile arsenal and BUK anti-aircraft missile systems near Kyiv.
“The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue their offensive operations in the context of the special military operation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
THE Ukrainian President He also said that Russia would not “subdue” it Slavutic, where workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant live, after the entry of Russian forces in the city on Saturday and after many days of fighting. Indeed, hundreds of residents gathered in the central square to protest the Arrival of the troops, while the Russian forces arrested the mayor of the city, but eventually left him free, according to a statement by the Ukrainian political party Sluha Narodu.
The fear that the Chernihivwhich has been pounded by Russian forces since the very first day of the invasion, could become the next Mariupol, say the Ukrainian authorities.
Although located on the road to Kyiv and not far from the border with Belarus, Chernihiv is surrounded and residents can not escape, and they are called to deal with the lack of electricity and drinking water, as it is constantly receiving relentless bombing.
In fact, the city has been cut off, while according to the mayor, there are 44 seriously injured, including three children, who can not be transported to another city for treatment.
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) categorically denied Ukraine’s claims that it had opened an office in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to facilitate the deportation of Ukrainian citizens to Russia. The ICC, which generally maintains a low profile, issued the statement following “false information circulating on the internet” that it was helping Russia move tens of thousands of people out of the country.
At the same time, more than 5,200 people fled yesterday through humanitarian corridors, according to Ukrainian officials. Kirill Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said two seriously injured children and an infant with pneumonia were among the 4,331 residents who escaped from the besieged city of Mariupol to Zaporizhia. The evacuations came amid reports by Ukrainian authorities on Saturday that a convoy of buses was being held by Russian forces.
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