Ukraine: Russian missile attack to the east on Bucha’s anniversary

A “massive attack” with Russian missiles on Sunday left six dead in Konstantinovka, near Bakhmut, in eastern Russia. Ukrainethe same day that President Zelensky commemorated the anniversary of the Bucha massacre by praising the Ukrainian resistance.

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The sad anniversary comes the day after Russia assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, which kyiv called a “slap” to diplomacy.

“Ukrainian people! They stopped the greatest force against humanity of our time. They stopped a force that they despise and that wants to destroy everything that is important to the people,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram.

In front, around bakhmutwhich has been the epicenter of the fighting for months, there were heavy clashes.

The situation in the region “remains very tense,” the deputy defense minister of UkraineGanna Maliar.

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“The enemy is employing not only the fighters of (the paramilitary organization) Wagner, but also the units of professional paratroopers. The casualties, [incluso si son] excessively high, they do not stop the enemy,” he added.

– “Massive Attack” –

Russia “It continues to concentrate the bulk of its efforts on offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut Avdiivka and Mariinka sectors,” the Ukrainian Army General Staff reported in the afternoon, assuring that “numerous enemy attacks against Bakhmut” had been repelled.

On the same day, some 27 kilometers from this ruined city, in Konstantinovka, Russian shelling left six dead – three men and three women – and eleven wounded, the Ukrainian authorities announced.

Police claimed that Russia carried out a “massive attack” in the morning, in total six S-300 and Hurricane missiles.

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“Sixteen apartment buildings, eight private residences, a kindergarten, an administrative building, three cars and a gas pipeline” were affected, it added.

Lilia, a 19-year-old psychology student and resident of one of the damaged buildings, was “shocked.” “I am very lucky that I was not at home at the moment,” she told AFP.

– ‘Russian evil will fall’ –

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskypraised on Sunday Ukrainians who stood up against “the greatest force against humanity” in modern times, on the first anniversary of the discovery of the Bucha massacre.

The town, a northern suburb of kyiv, became a symbol of the atrocities attributed to the invading troops.

kyiv estimates the number of civilians killed in the district during the Russian occupation at “more than 1,400”, including 37 children.

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Moscow denies any involvement in the deaths of civilians and claims that it was a “staged” by kyiv and its allies.

“We will liberate all our lands. We will put the Ukrainian flag back in all our cities and towns,” Zelensky added.

Russia still controls more than 18% of the Ukrainian territory.

“Russian evil will fall, precisely here in Ukraine, and it will no longer be able to rise,” he declared together with the prime ministers of Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia and the president of Moldova.

– An almost immobile front –

The anniversary of the discovery of the massacre of bucha It comes at a time of little progress or setbacks on the front, which stretches from the east to the south of the country.

Since the beginning of the year, the troops of Moscow They barely claimed progress. The few that were recorded occurred around the city of Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas basin, partially occupied by pro-Russian separatist forces since 2014.

The Russian army cannot so far break through the Ukrainian defenses, reinforced by Western weapons.

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In Russia, a prominent Russian military blogger and ardent supporter of the military offensive in Ukraine was killed Sunday in a bombing at a cafe in the city of St. Petersburg.

Vladlen Tatarsky was killed when a rigged gift containing a bomb exploded, at an event organized by the Cyber ​​Front Z group, which refers to itself online as “Russia’s information troops.” Another 25 people were injured.

“Russian journalists constantly feel the threat of reprisals from the kyiv regime,” reacted the Russian Foreign Ministry, assuring that Vladlen Tatarsky was “dangerous” for Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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