The Ukrainian Army said that Russia is preparing to launch an offensive in the eastern border region with Russian territory known as Donbass “to establish full control over the provinces” that comprise it, those of Donestk and Lugansk.
Overnight, Russian forces attacked a fuel depot and a factory near the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, causing no casualties, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk province said.
“The night was difficult. The enemy attacked our region from the air and hit a fuel depot and a factory. The warehouse is destroyed… and a powerful fire devours the factory,” Governor Valentin Reznichenko said on the Telegram app.
In neighboring Romania, which borders Ukraine to the north, police said a person crashed a car into the entrance gate of the Russian embassy in the capital Bucharest, exploding the vehicle and killing the driver.
Police said they were investigating the motives and other circumstances of the incident, the BBC reported.
In Luhansk province, Russian shelling yesterday killed one person and wounded five others, Governor Serhiy Haidai said on Telegram today.
Parts of Donetsk and Lugansk have been under the control of Russian-speaking rebels since 2014, when they took up arms and proclaimed both provinces that Russia recognized as independent republics before invading Ukraine on February 24.
So far, the Ukrainian army has managed to hold off Russian troops advancing in the east, but they remain outnumbered and outgunned, Zelensky said last night in one of his regular video messages to the nation.
The discovery of bodies of people who appear to be civilians deliberately killed in Bucha and other towns on the outskirts of kyiv that were occupied by Russian troops has sparked a wave of outrage in Europe and the United States.
Pope Francis today denounced the “new atrocities” in Ukraine
“The recent news about the war in Ukraine, rather than bringing relief and hope, show instead new atrocities, such as the Bucha massacre,” the pontiff said during Wednesday’s General Audience at the Vatican.
European countries expelled dozens of Russian diplomats this week and were scheduled to announce additional sanctions against Russia today.
The penalties will include a ban on all investments in Russia, US media reported, citing an official in the administration of President Joe Biden who asked not to be identified.
The executive body of the European Union (EU) proposed yesterday to ban imports of Russian coal, which mobilize some 4,000 million euros per year, in what would be the first sanctions of the bloc against the Russian energy industry.
Yesterday, the United States already announced that it will not authorize Moscow to repay its debt with dollars that are in US banks.
Hours later, he announced additional aid for Ukraine that could reach up to 100 million dollars, which brings Washington’s aid to 1.7 billion since the beginning of the Russian invasion, six weeks from tomorrow.
In a virtual speech before the UN Security Council, Zelenksi yesterday called for the highest UN body to act “immediately” against Russia for its “war crimes” committed in Ukraine and called for its exclusion from the council.
Russia is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, with the right to veto its resolutions.
Zelensky suggested that this system be reformed and that the “right to veto does not mean the right to kill.”
Russia insisted that its troops did not commit any abuses either in Bucha or elsewhere in Ukraine.
Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said “not one person” suffered violence in Bucha while the town northwest of kyiv was under Russian military control.
The ambassador reiterated claims by President Vladimir Putin’s government that photos taken by Western media of bodies dumped in the streets of Bucha were “a crude forgery” staged by Ukraine.
Source: Ambito
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