A “massive Attack” with Russian missiles on Sunday left six dead in Konstantinovka, near Bakhmutin the east of Ukrainethe same day that the president Zelensky commemorated the anniversary of the Bucha massacre praising to the Ukrainian resistance.
The sad anniversary comes the day after Russia assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Councilthat kyiv He called diplomacy a “slap in the face.”
Bakhmut, a key point of the Russia-Ukraine war
“Ukrainian people! They stopped the greatest force against humanity of our time. They stopped a force that they despise and wants to destroy everything that is important to the people”Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
On the front, around Bakhmut, which has been the epicenter of the fighting for months, there were heavy clashes.
The situation in the region “it’s still very tense”said on Sunday the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar.
“The enemy is employing not only the fighters of (the paramilitary organization) Wagner, but also the units of professional paratroopers. The casualties, – even if they are – excessively high, do not stop the enemy,” added.
Status of the confrontations
Russia “continues to concentrate the bulk of its efforts on offensive actions in the sectors of Lyman, Bakhmut Avdiivka and Mariinka”the General Staff of the Ukrainian army reported in the afternoon, assuring that “numerous enemy attacks against Bakhmut” had been repelled.
On the same day, some 27 kilometers from this city in ruins, in KonstantinovkaRussian bombings left six dead – three men and three women – and eleven injured, the Ukrainian authorities announced.
journalists from the AFP They saw a large crater in the middle of a residential courtyard and windows smashed from the ground floor to the upper floors in two 14-story buildings, while the roofs of neighboring houses were smashed.
Police claimed that Russia carried out a “massive attack” in the morning, in total six S-300 and Hurricane missiles.
“Sixteen apartment buildings, eight private residences, a kindergarten, an administrative building, three automobiles, and a gas pipeline.” were affected, he added.
lilia, psychology student A 19-year-old resident of one of the damaged buildings, she was “shocked.” “I am very lucky not to have been home at the moment,” she told AFP.
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskypraised on Sunday the Ukrainians who resisted against “the greatest force against humanity” of the present time, on the first anniversary of the discovery of the Bucha massacre.
The town, a northern suburb of kyiv which had 37,000 inhabitants before the war, became a symbol of the atrocities attributed to the invading troops.
kyiv estimated in “more than 1,400” the number of civilians killed in the district during the Russian occupation, including 37 children.
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Moscow denies any involvement in the deaths of civilians and claims that it was “staged” by kyiv and its allies.
“We will liberate all our lands. We will put the Ukrainian flag back in all our cities and towns,” Zelensky added.
Russia still controls more than 18% of Ukrainian territory
“Russian evil will fall, precisely here in Ukraine and he will no longer be able to get up”, he declared together with the prime ministers of Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia and the president of Moldova.
The soldiers will continue “fighting for the independence of our nation,” said the head of the army, Valery Zaluzhny.
The anniversary of the discovery of the bucha massacre It comes at a time of little progress or setbacks on the front, which stretches from the east to the south of the country.
Since the beginning of the year, the troops of Moscow They barely claimed progress. The few that were recorded occurred around the city of Bakhmut, in the eastern basin of the Donbaspartially occupied by pro-Russian separatist forces since 2014.
The Russian army is unable to break through the ukrainian defenses, reinforced by Western weapons. Both sides have acknowledged heavy losses in recent months of fierce fighting.
Source: Ambito
