Russia bombs clinic in Ukraine, receives artillery fire in border region

Russia shelled a clinic in the Ukrainian city of Dniproleaving two dead and more than 20 wounded, and was the target of abundant artillery fire in a border region with Ukraine.

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“There are 23 wounded in Dnipro”, indicated the head of the military administration of this region in the center of the country, Serguii Lysak. As he explained, two men died in the attack.

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskypublished a video in which buildings are seen badly damaged and from which columns of smoke are coming out.

Local media published videos of rescuers helping people with bloody faces to escape from the clinic through the corridors, littered with rubble.

“Another Russian missile attack, another crime against humanity”he added Zelensky.

according to his wife Olenathe center attacked was a psychiatric care clinic.

the military governor lysak stressed that the region was “massively attacked” overnight “with missiles and drones”.

kyiv In turn, he said that during the night he suffered the 13th air raid since the beginning of the month, this time with cruise missiles launched by bombers Tu-95MS from the region of the sea Caspian.

“According to preliminary information, all enemy targets in the airspace of kyiv They were detected and destroyed.”indicated the military administration of the capital, which did not report material damage or victims.

In its daily morning report, the Ukrainian military command noted 55 Russian airstrikes in the past 24 hours, including one that damaged a dam in the area of Donetskin the east of the country, which makes running a “high risk of flooding in neighboring towns”.

The Russian army confirmed having carried out nighttime bombings in Ukraineand said to have aimed at “ammunition storage places” and “hit all designated points”.

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Shelling in Belgorod

Moscow For his part, he reported Ukrainian bombardments in the region of Belgorodbordering Ukraine, for the fifth consecutive day.

The region received dozens of artillery shots in the last 24 hourswhich caused property damage but no casualties, according to the governor Viacheslav Gladkov.

The shots took among their targets the town of Kozinkain the district of Graivoron, where a major armed incursion from Ukraine took place on Monday and Tuesday and claimed responsibility for by two groups of exiled Russians fighting Moscow forces. The town was hit by 132 shells, according to the governor.

The governor also stated that the district of Belgorodskywhich surrounds the regional capital Belgorodwas hit by 14 shots, in particular from drones, one of which bombed an administrative building and caused damage.

In Krasnodar, a Russian city 200 km from the peninsula of crimeaannexed by Moscow in 2014, two drones damaged buildings but caused no casualties, according to the governor, Veniamin Kondratiev.

These cross attacks occur when Ukraine It says it has been preparing a counter-offensive against the Russian forces occupying the south and east of the country for months, after receiving multiple deliveries of Western weapons.

In this sense, Russian diplomacy “strongly protested” before the embassy of USA by “unacceptable statementsfrom the President’s National Security Adviser Joe Biden, Jake Sullivanwhom he accused of “approve” Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory.

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belarus

In another flashpoint, belarusally of Moscowstated Thursday night that Russia had begun transferring nuclear weapons on its territory, following an announcement made in March by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskovdid not confirm this information on Friday, and limited himself to highlighting that Belarus “It faces unfriendly, and even hostile, attitudes from neighboring countries.”

“Therefore, we must continue to develop and strengthen our relations with us allies (…) including in the military sphere”the spokesman added.

Source: Elcomercio

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