Heavy shelling was reported in western and northwestern Kiev this morning, and crews from the US news network CNN felt the impact of the blasts in Kiev and the area southwestern of the city.
Two mortar shells hit a checkpoint set up to allow civilians to enter the city from the suburbs. At the moment, there are indications of three deaths by the Ukrainian authorities, two allegedly children, which occurred in Irpín, as confirmed by an adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency.
The moment of the attack was recorded by a camera where a Ukrainian soldier is observed being affected by the blast wave of the mortar.
The adviser, Oleksiy Arestovich, said that Russian forces yesterday took the towns of Gostomel and Bucha, located a few kilometers north of Irpin, and that they were preventing the exit of many children injured in the attacks.
While the column advancing towards northern Kiev has been stopped for days, Russian troops have won victories in southern Ukraine as part of an effort to cut off their outlet to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, from where they reach the Mediterranean. .
Warning to neighboring countries
At the same time, Russia warned Ukraine’s neighboring countries of the risk of hosting Ukrainian warplanes used in the conflict between the two states.
“Virtually all combat-capable aviation of the Kiev regime was destroyed. But we know from a reliable source that some Ukrainian aircraft flew to Romania and other neighboring countries.”Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
“The use of airfield networks of these countries as a base for Ukrainian military aircraft and their subsequent use against the Russian armed forces could be considered as an involvement of these countries in the armed conflict,” he added.
“That is pure rhetoric to divert attention from what is really happening on the ground: civilians killed, rules of an armed conflict being flouted,” Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca reacted in a television interview.
The Russian government “can already try to scare us […]We have no reason to feel threatened,” he added.
Ciuca mentioned an incident reported by the Romanian military on February 24, the first day of the Russian offensive, when a Ukrainian fighter plane was intercepted in Romanian airspace and forced to land in that country. The pilot explained that he had had technical problems on board, according to Bucharest.
“The plane took off again [el 1 de marzo] unarmed from Romania, just to avoid any possible accusation” by Moscow, stressed the prime minister, specifying that the Romanian authorities made the incident public “with full transparency”.
Ukraine, where the Russian army has been carrying out an intervention since February 24, urges Western countries to establish a no-fly zone over its territory, something that NATO rejected, alleging a strong risk of direct confrontation with Moscow.
On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would consider any country trying to impose a no-fly zone on Ukraine to be a co-belligerent.
Attack on military factories
The Russian government reported that was preparing “long-range precision” strikes against Ukrainian military factories and the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, responded that it will be a “deliberate assassination”.
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, stated that these attacks are part of the goal of “demilitarization of Ukraine” proclaimed by Moscow.
The official urged the Ukrainian population to stay away from these facilities, according to the official Russian press.
Zelensky replied in a video posted on Telegram that “many of these industries were built decades ago, during the Soviet government.”
“They were built in urban settings, thousands of people work in them, hundreds of thousands live nearby; it is a murder, a deliberate murder,” he said, according to the Europa Press news agency.
Source: Ambito
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