In a Russian attack on a hospital in Ruby Ne One person was killed and three others were injured in eastern Ukraine on Sunday. An enemy shell hit the city’s hospital, the region’s governor, Serhiy Gayday, said Sunday night on the Telegram message service. He posted a photo of rescue workers combing through the wreckage. The city near Luhansk in the Donbass region has been the target of repeated bombing since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Also in the city of southern Ukraine Mykolayiv one person died in a Russian attack. Another 14 people were injured, including a 15-year-old, Governor Vitali Kim said on Telegram. Also in the city of the Black Sea Ochakiv there was a bomb attack, he added. There were also dead and wounded there, the exact number is unclear.
After withdrawing from the region around the capital Kiev, Russian troops are massing in southern and eastern Ukraine, according to Kiev. But the attacks also continue in the region around the capital. Russia on Sunday confirmed an air strike on a control center at the air force base in Vasylkiv not far from Kiev.
at the Russian Belgorod According to eyewitnesses, explosions were heard near the Ukrainian border. The cause was not initially clear. Two days ago, according to Russian reports, Ukrainian military helicopters attacked a fuel depot in Belgorod, Ukraine denied the report.
Missiles fired at oil refinery
According to Russia, it attacked targets near the Ukrainian port city odesa in the Black Sea. The Defense Ministry said on Sunday in Moscow that rockets had been fired from ships and planes at an oil refinery and three fuel depots. The city hall of the metropolis of about one million inhabitants had already reported fires in the city area. Later, the mayor of the town of Mykolaiv, about 130 kilometers to the southeast, Olexander Senkewytsch, also reported several rocket attacks. Initially, there were no further details.
According to Russian information, a total of 51 military installations were hit in Ukraine on Sunday night, including four command posts and two missile defense systems. This information could not be independently verified. Since the war began on February 24, the Russian army says it has destroyed a total of 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 88 helicopters, 383 drones, 221 missile defense systems and 1,903 tanks and other armored vehicles.
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Moscow claims to only attack military targets in the neighboring country. Ukraine, on the other hand, accuses Russia of also bombing civilian infrastructure and residential areas.
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“Odessa was attacked from the air,” said aide to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko. “Fires have been reported in some areas. Some of the missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft guns. It is recommended to close the windows.” According to Odessa City Hall, an important part of the “infrastructure” was affected. “We hope there are no deaths,” said city spokesman Sergei Bratschuk.
Eleven kidnapped Ukrainian mayors
According to information from Kiev, eleven mayors have been kidnapped since the beginning of the Russian aggression war in Ukraine. Officers of congregations in the regions Kiev, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk are in Russian “captivity”, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Sunday. The mayor of Motyschyn near Kiev, Olga Sucheko, and her husband were arrested by Russian soldiers and later killed. The Ukrainian prosecutor announced the kidnapping of Sucheko and her husband a week ago.
“We are informing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN and all sorts of organizations, just as we did with the other missing civilians,” Vereshchuk said. She urged “everyone to do everything in their power to bring her back”.
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday that it had documented several cases of possible war crimes against civilians committed by Russian forces in occupied territories in the Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kiev regions. These included a repeat rape case and two execution cases. In one case it was the execution of six men, in the other case it was a man. Russian soldiers were also accused of looting, HRW said.
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Regained control of areas in the north
According to his own statements, the Ukrainian army had the region around the capital on Saturday after weeks of fighting. Kiev and other areas in the north regained full control. “Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and the whole region Kiev were released by the invaders,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Facebook on Saturday. The military leadership assumed that Russian troops would concentrate more in the south and east of the country. There would be a “rapid withdrawal” of Russian troops in the north of the country.
Russian troops had already left the northwest suburbs of Kiev in recent days. irpin and bushing retreat after its failed attempt to besiege the Ukrainian capital.
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After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the northwest of the Ukrainian capital, gunshots from dead bodies in the streets of Bucha caused international horror.
Ukraine has recovered the bodies of a total of 410 residents from the region around the capital Kiev, Ukrainian attorney general Iryna Venediktova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday. Medical examiners and other specialists are on call to examine the bodies and begin investigations. Ukraine blames Russian troops, who until recently occupied the small town, for the massacre. Moscow denies this.
According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the withdrawal of Russian troops near Kiev is not a real withdrawal. It’s more of a repositioning that can be followed by new attacks. The war must end, says Stoltenberg Sunday on CNN. It is the responsibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin to do so.
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