“A large fuel stockpile was destroyed by ‘Kalibr’ cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea, as well as by hypersonic ballistic missiles fired by the ‘Kinjal’ aeronautical system from Crimean airspace,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
This latest attack occurred in the region of Mikolaiv, the ministry said, without specifying the date. The destroyed target, he noted, was “the main source of fuel supply for Ukrainian armored vehicles” deployed in the south of the country.
These missiles belong to a family of new weapons developed by Russia and that its president, Vladimir Putindescribes as “invincible”.
On Mariupola strategic city in southeastern Ukraine that has been bombed for weeks and suffers from water, gas and electricity shortages, local authorities accused the Russian army on Sunday of having bombed an art school that served as a refuge for 400 people the day before, assuring that the civilians will be trapped under the rubble.
“The building has been destroyed and people are still under the rubble. The death toll is still being clarified,” the local government said. This information has not yet been verified.
The humanitarian situation in Mariupol, as in other besieged cities, is dire.
A group of 19 children, most of them orphans, are “in great danger”, trapped in a sanatorium because their guardians cannot pick them up due to the fighting, relatives and witnesses told AFP on Saturday.
Doing “something like that to a peaceful city is an act of terror that will be remembered even in the next century,” said the Ukrainian president. Volodomir Zelensky in a speech on Sunday. The siege of Mariupol “will go down in history to answer for war crimes,” he declared.
Ukraine also blamed Russia for the deaths of 56 people from the impact of a projectile against a nursing home in the disputed region of Luganskin the southeast of the country.
The incident occurred in the city of Kreminna, in the east of the country, when a Russian tank fired “cynically and deliberately” at the residence, according to the head of the Lugansk civil-military administration, Serhi Gaidai, on his page. From Facebook.
Russian bombing also severely damaged the steel and metallurgical plant in Azovstal of Mariúpol, whose port is crucial for the export of steel produced in the east of the country.
In northern Ukraine, the mayor of ChernigovVladislav Atroshenko, described as “absolute humanitarian catastrophe” the situation in your city.
“Indiscriminate artillery fire continues in residential areas, dozens of civilians, children and women are killed,” he told television. “There is no electricity, heating or water, the city’s infrastructure is completely destroyed.”
The attacks have not stopped either in Kyivthe capital of Ukraine, in Mikolaiv and in Kharkivthe second largest city in the country, in the northwest, where at least 500 people have died since the start of the war, according to official Ukrainian figures.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Russian troops, whose advance on the ground has been much more difficult than expected in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance, have carried out 291 missile strikes and 1,403 air strikes since the beginning of the invasion on February 24.
Australia on Sunday expanded its sanctions against Russia, immediately banning exports of alumina and bauxite, and promised more weapons and humanitarian aid for kyiv.
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnsonasked this Sunday China take a position and condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, joining his voice to that of Zelensky, who on Saturday asked Beijing to “condemn the barbarism” committed by Moscow.
Some 180,000 people managed to escape from combat zones through humanitarian corridorsand 6,623 did so on Saturday (of which 4,128 from Mariupol and 1,820 from kyiv), according to the Ukrainian authorities.
Since February 24, 10 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine due to Russia’s “devastating” war, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Sunday.UNHCR), Philippo Grandi.
“The war in Ukraine is so devastating that 10 million people have fled, either as internally displaced persons or as refugees abroad,” the UNHCR chief said on his Twitter account.
According to the UNHCR, 3,389,044 Ukrainians have left the country since the Russian invasion began on February 24 and another 60,352 have joined the exodus, according to updated figures on Saturday.
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