LVIV: Russian military forces continued his punitive campaign to capture UkraineResidents of other besieged cities as the capital of the United States expressed hope on Monday that renewed diplomatic talks could open the way for more civilians or emergency supplies to reach them.
Fighting continued on the outskirts of Ukraine, a day after the escalation of the war in Ukraine with an airstrike on a military base near the border with Poland Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said Russian forces fired artillery into the capital’s suburbs, a key political and strategic target for the offensive on the 19th.
Air strike warnings were issued for cities and towns across the country overnight, from near the Russian border in the east to the Carpathian Mountains in the west. Officials said a town councilor from Brovry, east of Kyiv, was killed in fighting there. Two people were killed when artillery hit a nine-story apartment building in the city’s northern district, according to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.
Regional administration chief Oleksiy Kuleba said on Ukrainian television that shells also hit the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin, Buka and Hostomel, which have seen some of the worst fighting in a stalled attempt to capture Russia’s capital.
A fourth round of talks between officials of Ukraine and Russia is expected on Monday, which will discuss, among other issues, how to supply food, water, medicine and other desperately needed supplies. mykhailo podolyaki said. The besieged southern city of Mariupol, where the war has caused some of the greatest human suffering, remains the cutoff despite earlier talks on building aid or evacuation convoys.
A breakthrough expected came a day when Russian missiles shot down a military training base in western Ukraine, which served as an important center for cooperation between Ukraine and NATO countries to support their defence.
The attack killed 35 people, Ukrainian officials said, and the base’s proximity to the borders of Poland and other NATO members raised the possibility that the Western military alliance could be drawn into the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War II.
Speaking on Sunday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a “dark day”, and again urged NATO leaders to establish a no-fly zone on their country, a plea which the West has said should be escalated to a nuclear confrontation. can increase.
“If you don’t close our skies, it’s only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory. NATO territory. At the homes of citizens of NATO countries,” Zelensky said, urging the Russian president. Vladimir Putin A request, unanswered by the Kremlin, to meet him directly.
The presidential office said on Monday that airstrikes hit residential buildings near the important southern city of Mykolaiv as well as the eastern city of Kharkiv and toppled a television tower in the Rivne region to the northwest. The explosions took place overnight around the Russian-occupied Black Sea port of Kherson.
Three airstrikes were carried out overnight in the northern city of Chernihiv, and most of the city is without heat. There is no electricity in many areas for several days. Utility workers are trying to restore power but are often hit by gunfire.
The government announced plans for new humanitarian aid and evacuation corridors, although similar efforts failed due to ongoing shelling in the past week.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Monday morning that Moscow’s troops had not made great progress in the past 24 hours, despite Russia’s punitive offensive on several fronts. The Russian Defense Ministry gave a different assessment, saying that its forces had advanced 11 kilometers (7 mi) and reached five cities north of Mariupol.
A Defense Ministry spokesman said the Russian military shot down four Ukrainian drones overnight, including a Bayrat drone. Ukraine’s Bayraktar drones made by NATO member Turkey have become a symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allegations that the US and its allies pose a potential security threat to Russia.
US President Joe Biden is sending his national security adviser to Rome to meet with a Chinese official over concerns that Beijing is fueling Russian propaganda and could help Moscow evade Western economic sanctions.
The United Nations has recorded at least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, although it believes the real toll is much higher. Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office said at least 85 children were among the dead. Lakhs more people have fled their homes.
While Russia’s military is larger and better equipped than Ukraine’s, Russian troops have faced strong resistance backed by Western weapons. As his progress slowed in many areas, he continued to fire on several cities, target two dozen medical facilities and create a series of humanitarian crises.
Ukraine and European leaders have pushed Russia, with limited success, to provide safe passage to civilians in conflict. Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that preparations were on to open more than 10 humanitarian corridors, including the besieged port city of Mariupol. But such promises have been broken time and again, and as of late Sunday nothing could be said about whether people were able to use the evacuation routes.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the suffering in Mariupol was “simply immense” and hundreds of thousands of people faced extreme shortages of food, water and medicine.
“The bodies of civilians and fighters lie under the rubble or in the open where they fell,” the Red Cross said in a statement. “Life-changing injuries and chronic, debilitating conditions cannot be treated.” The battle is significant for Mariupol because its capture could help Russia establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.
That fighting expanded on Sunday to the sprawling facility in Yvoryev, which has long been used to train Ukrainian troops, often with trainers from the United States and other countries in the Western Coalition. More than 30 Russian cruise missiles targeted the site. In addition to those killed, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said 134 people were injured in the attack.
The base is less than 25 kilometers (15 mi) from the Polish border and appears to be the westernmost target struck during Russia’s 18-day offensive. It has hosted NATO training exercises, making it a powerful symbol of Russia’s long-standing fear that the expansion of the 30-member Western military alliance to include former Soviet states threatens its security – something NATO does. denies.
Inna Padi, 40, of Ukraine, who crossed the border with her family, was taking shelter at a fire station. wilkie oziePoland, when she woke up on Sunday morning from blasts that shook her windows.
“I understood in that moment, even if we are free from it, (war) is still coming after us,” she said.
Russian fighters also fired at the airport in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, less than 150 kilometers (94 mi) north of Romania and 250 kilometers (155 mi) from Hungary, two other NATO allies.
NATO said on Sunday that it currently has no personnel in Ukraine, although the United States has increased the number of US troops stationed in Poland. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the West would retaliate if Russian strikes go outside Ukraine and if any NATO member is accidentally killed.
Fighting continued on the outskirts of Ukraine, a day after the escalation of the war in Ukraine with an airstrike on a military base near the border with Poland Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said Russian forces fired artillery into the capital’s suburbs, a key political and strategic target for the offensive on the 19th.
Air strike warnings were issued for cities and towns across the country overnight, from near the Russian border in the east to the Carpathian Mountains in the west. Officials said a town councilor from Brovry, east of Kyiv, was killed in fighting there. Two people were killed when artillery hit a nine-story apartment building in the city’s northern district, according to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.
Regional administration chief Oleksiy Kuleba said on Ukrainian television that shells also hit the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin, Buka and Hostomel, which have seen some of the worst fighting in a stalled attempt to capture Russia’s capital.
A fourth round of talks between officials of Ukraine and Russia is expected on Monday, which will discuss, among other issues, how to supply food, water, medicine and other desperately needed supplies. mykhailo podolyaki said. The besieged southern city of Mariupol, where the war has caused some of the greatest human suffering, remains the cutoff despite earlier talks on building aid or evacuation convoys.
A breakthrough expected came a day when Russian missiles shot down a military training base in western Ukraine, which served as an important center for cooperation between Ukraine and NATO countries to support their defence.
The attack killed 35 people, Ukrainian officials said, and the base’s proximity to the borders of Poland and other NATO members raised the possibility that the Western military alliance could be drawn into the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War II.
Speaking on Sunday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a “dark day”, and again urged NATO leaders to establish a no-fly zone on their country, a plea which the West has said should be escalated to a nuclear confrontation. can increase.
“If you don’t close our skies, it’s only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory. NATO territory. At the homes of citizens of NATO countries,” Zelensky said, urging the Russian president. Vladimir Putin A request, unanswered by the Kremlin, to meet him directly.
The presidential office said on Monday that airstrikes hit residential buildings near the important southern city of Mykolaiv as well as the eastern city of Kharkiv and toppled a television tower in the Rivne region to the northwest. The explosions took place overnight around the Russian-occupied Black Sea port of Kherson.
Three airstrikes were carried out overnight in the northern city of Chernihiv, and most of the city is without heat. There is no electricity in many areas for several days. Utility workers are trying to restore power but are often hit by gunfire.
The government announced plans for new humanitarian aid and evacuation corridors, although similar efforts failed due to ongoing shelling in the past week.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Monday morning that Moscow’s troops had not made great progress in the past 24 hours, despite Russia’s punitive offensive on several fronts. The Russian Defense Ministry gave a different assessment, saying that its forces had advanced 11 kilometers (7 mi) and reached five cities north of Mariupol.
A Defense Ministry spokesman said the Russian military shot down four Ukrainian drones overnight, including a Bayrat drone. Ukraine’s Bayraktar drones made by NATO member Turkey have become a symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allegations that the US and its allies pose a potential security threat to Russia.
US President Joe Biden is sending his national security adviser to Rome to meet with a Chinese official over concerns that Beijing is fueling Russian propaganda and could help Moscow evade Western economic sanctions.
The United Nations has recorded at least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, although it believes the real toll is much higher. Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office said at least 85 children were among the dead. Lakhs more people have fled their homes.
While Russia’s military is larger and better equipped than Ukraine’s, Russian troops have faced strong resistance backed by Western weapons. As his progress slowed in many areas, he continued to fire on several cities, target two dozen medical facilities and create a series of humanitarian crises.
Ukraine and European leaders have pushed Russia, with limited success, to provide safe passage to civilians in conflict. Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that preparations were on to open more than 10 humanitarian corridors, including the besieged port city of Mariupol. But such promises have been broken time and again, and as of late Sunday nothing could be said about whether people were able to use the evacuation routes.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the suffering in Mariupol was “simply immense” and hundreds of thousands of people faced extreme shortages of food, water and medicine.
“The bodies of civilians and fighters lie under the rubble or in the open where they fell,” the Red Cross said in a statement. “Life-changing injuries and chronic, debilitating conditions cannot be treated.” The battle is significant for Mariupol because its capture could help Russia establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.
That fighting expanded on Sunday to the sprawling facility in Yvoryev, which has long been used to train Ukrainian troops, often with trainers from the United States and other countries in the Western Coalition. More than 30 Russian cruise missiles targeted the site. In addition to those killed, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said 134 people were injured in the attack.
The base is less than 25 kilometers (15 mi) from the Polish border and appears to be the westernmost target struck during Russia’s 18-day offensive. It has hosted NATO training exercises, making it a powerful symbol of Russia’s long-standing fear that the expansion of the 30-member Western military alliance to include former Soviet states threatens its security – something NATO does. denies.
Inna Padi, 40, of Ukraine, who crossed the border with her family, was taking shelter at a fire station. wilkie oziePoland, when she woke up on Sunday morning from blasts that shook her windows.
“I understood in that moment, even if we are free from it, (war) is still coming after us,” she said.
Russian fighters also fired at the airport in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, less than 150 kilometers (94 mi) north of Romania and 250 kilometers (155 mi) from Hungary, two other NATO allies.
NATO said on Sunday that it currently has no personnel in Ukraine, although the United States has increased the number of US troops stationed in Poland. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the West would retaliate if Russian strikes go outside Ukraine and if any NATO member is accidentally killed.