His colleague at the head of the Defense portfolio, Sergei Shoigu, assured that his troops were implementing a “liberation plan” of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, the pro-Russian separatist territories in the Donbas region (eastern Ukraine).
Previously, he assured that his troops neutralized thirteen Ukrainian positions in Donbas, including the key city of Sloviansk, and bombed another “60 military targets.”
The German head of government, Olaf Scholz, considered that “the murder of thousands of civilians” since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine “is a war crime for which the Russian president bears responsibility.”
Scholz maintained these purposes after participating in a videoconference summit of the G7 (United States, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan) together with the top leaders of Romania and Poland and the main leaders of the European Union ( EU). During that meeting, the United States and the EU reached a “broad consensus” to impose “new sanctions” on Russia and “increase Moscow’s international isolation,” according to the Italian government.
Conquering Donbas, a mining region partly controlled by pro-Russian separatists, would give Moscow a continuous swath of land from the Black Sea coast to the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. The big stumbling block to that plan remains the city of Mariupol, besieged for weeks, where the last Ukrainian forces are holding out, entrenched in the vast Azovstal industrial complex.
In Mariupol, in addition to the fighters, there would be “at least 1,000 civilians, mostly women, children and elderly people, in underground shelters” in the factories, the city’s municipal council said.
In the neighboring Donetsk region, the Russians are bombing “in the direction of Marinka, Ocheretyne and Avdivka,” Governor Pavlo Kirilenko reported, noting a “difficult but controlled” situation. Although the outbreaks are in Donbas, Russia has attacked other Ukrainian regions. In Járkov (northeast), the second city of the country, the bombings caused three dead and 21 wounded on Tuesday. The Russian military also launched a series of missiles in southern Ukraine, another front line.
In Lviv, the large western city that had become a refuge for the displaced, “powerful” attacks left at least seven dead on Monday, according to local authorities.
Source: Ambito
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