Kyiv said today it was trying to break it siege of Mariupol by Russian forces and that battles are raging around its facilities Illich Steel and Iron Works and in the port area.
“The situation in Mariupol is difficult and harsh. Fights are raging right now. The Russian army is constantly calling for additional units to invade the city. “said the representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanik.
“But so far the Russians have not been able to fully understand it.”he said in an information broadcast on television.
Motuzyanik noted that Russia had used large-scale bombers to attack Mariupol for the first time since its invasion on February 24, and that Russian forces were concentrating their operations. for the occupation of the cities of Rubezhnoye, Popasna in eastern Ukraine.
He also described the loss as significant of the Russian cruiser Moskva, which sank last night. However, he said he was not authorized to provide information on a factory near the capital, Kyiv, which the Russian Defense Ministry claimed had been hit by rockets overnight.
Moscow announced today that it has taken full control of the Illich Steel and Iron Works facility in Mariupol and warned of more strikes on targets in Kyiv.
They bomb Mariupol with the beastly Tupolevs
The battle in the southern and eastern provinces of Ukraine is now entering another phase. The Russian military seems to have given the go-ahead for the final stage of the attack in both Donetsk and Luhansk, but especially in Mariupolwhich is literally in danger of extinction from the map.
According to reports, The Russians “lifted” the brutal Tu-95 / -160 bombers, ruthlessly bombing the city of Mariupol and leveling everything in their path. Operations are now conducted without exception, as Russian troops do not separate residential areas and military installations.
“On Thursday, April 14, two large Russian Tu-95 / -160 bombers took off from Krasnodar and headed for Mariupol, where they bombed it,” said Alexander Motuzyanik, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military. “It is also the first time that modern technology Tu-22M3 fighters have been used, hitting missile targets, also in Mariupol,” he added.
Civilians killed in Kharkiv bombing
Seven civilians were killed and 27 wounded yesterday, Thursday, by Russian fire on civilian evacuation buses in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced today.
“On April 14, Russian troops opened fire on civilian evacuation buses in the Borova region. “According to the first information, 7 people were killed and 27 were injured,” the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said in a message to the Telegram application.
An investigation has been launched into “violations of the laws and customs of war, in connection with premeditated murder”, he adds.
Bombings in Zaporizhia as well
At the same time in the region of Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraineone person was killed and five were injured in a Russian bombing raid on the town of Vasilivka, in which houses, a butcher shop and the Tavrysk railway station were damaged, according to a message from the Ukrainian regional military administration on the Telegram application.
In Russia, more than 20 buildings and a school were damaged yesterday by the Ukrainian bombing of a Russian village in the Belgorod region of western Russia, the TASS news agency reported, citing Russian regional authorities.
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