“This is not just about missile strikes from the air and the sea,” said Vadim Skibitski, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence. “We can see shelling along the entire line of contact, along the entire front line. There is active use of tactical aviation and attack helicopters,” he noted.
“It is clear that preparations are under way for the next phase of the offensive,” he added, the third since the start of the invasion on February 24.
The Ukrainian military said Russia is regrouping units for an offensive toward Sloviansk, a symbolically important city held by Ukraine in the eastern Donetsk region.
The British Ministry of Defense said yesterday that Russia is also reinforcing defenses in the areas it occupies in southern Ukraine following pressure from local forces and promises by the government of Volodymyr Zelensky to force out foreign troops.
victims
Ukraine claims that at least 40 people have been killed in Russian bombardment of urban areas since Thursday.
Dozens of relatives and local residents attended the funeral of 4-year-old Liza Dmytrieva in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia yesterday. The girl herself was killed in a missile attack on the center of Vinnytsia on Thursday, in which 24 people were killed, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The rockets hit the northeastern city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkov region on Friday night, killing three people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others, regional governor Oleh Sinehubov said.
“Three people have lost their lives. Why? Why did Vladimir Putin go crazy?” said Raisa Shapoval, 83, a distraught resident sitting in the ruins of her house.
To the south, more than 50 Russian Grad rockets bombarded the city of Nikopol, on the banks of the Dnipro River, killing two people who were found in the rubble, Governor Valentyn Reznichenko said.
Source: Ambito
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