The Ukrainian President bans pro-Russian parties from working – and speaks of veritable mountains of corpses from the enemy army. In Belarus, an important train connection is apparently cut. An overview of what happened during the night and a view of the day.
Fighting on the front sections in Ukraine continued into Sunday night. At the political level, the government in Kyiv meanwhile launched a strike against pro-Russian parties in the country and had their work banned until further notice. President Volodymyr Zelenskyj once again addressed the people of Russia with drastic words.
Work of pro-Russian parties in Ukraine banned for the time being
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has banned the work of a number of pro-Russian parties for the duration of the war in the country. Selenskyj announced this via video message on Sunday night. “The activities of their politicians aimed at splitting or collaborating will not be successful, but they will receive a harsh answer,” Zelenskyi was quoted as saying by “Ukrayinska Pravda”.
The parties affected include the “Opposition Platform – From Lifetime” and the “Opposition Block”, which are also represented in Parliament. Like the other nine extra-parliamentary parties that have now been banned, they are considered Eurosceptic, anti-liberal or pro-Russian.
Selenskyj : Mountains of corpses of Russian soldiers
Selenskyj addressed the Russian population in his video message with martial words about heavy Russian war losses. “At the hotspots of particularly heavy fighting, our front lines of defense are practically overwhelmed with corpses of Russian soldiers. (…) And these corpses, these bodies are not recovered by anyone,” he continued. “And they’re chasing new units over them, any reserves that the Russian commanders are collecting somewhere.”
He can understand that Russia has almost endless reserves of soldiers and military equipment. “But I would like to know from the citizens of Russia: what has been done to you over the years that you did not notice your losses?”. More than 14,000 Russian soldiers have already been killed. “That’s 14,000 mothers, 14,000 fathers, wives, children, relatives, friends – and you don’t notice?”
The Ukrainian account of the killed Russian soldiers cannot be independently verified – just as little as that of their own military losses, which the state leadership put at around 1,300 soldiers around a week ago. So far, the Russian side has officially confirmed just under 500 of their own casualties.
Ukrainian authorities: More than 260 civilians killed in Kharkiv
The number of deaths among the civilian population also continues to rise. According to local authorities, 266 civilians have been killed since Russian troops invaded Ukraine more than three weeks ago as a result of fighting in the city of Kharkiv alone. Among them were 14 children, said the judicial authorities in the country’s second largest city on Saturday evening. The city, which was besieged by Russian troops and was home to 1.5 million people before the start of the war, continues to be shelled with artillery, the Unian agency reported. This information could not be independently verified.
After a rocket attack by Russian troops on a barracks in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, helpers are said to have recovered at least 50 dead from the rubble on Saturday. A total of around 200 soldiers were sleeping in the building when the rockets hit, Ukrajinska Pravda reported on Saturday. Almost 60 injured were taken to nearby hospitals. This information has not been independently confirmed.
Mayor of Chernihiv reports catastrophic situation
In a dramatic appeal, the mayor of Chernihiv pointed out the precarious situation in the northern Ukrainian city surrounded by Russian troops. “Indiscriminate artillery shelling of residential areas continues, peaceful people are dying,” Vladislav Atrashenko said, according to the Unian agency. The city is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe. “There is no electricity, no water, no heating, the city’s infrastructure is completely destroyed.”
Belarusian railway workers are said to have cut all rail connections between Belarus and Ukraine. The chairman of the Ukrainian railways, Olexander Kamyshin, thanked his colleagues in Belarus for the unspecified action on Saturday. “As of today I can say that there is no rail traffic between Belarus and Ukraine,” he was quoted as saying by the Unian agency. This would mean that Russian troops in Ukraine would not receive reinforcements or supplies via these routes.
An adviser to the Belarusian opposition icon Svetlana Tichanovskaya also reported on the alleged action on Twitter. “Heroes! Belarusian railway workers cut off the railway connection with Ukraine, so trains with Russian equipment cannot go to Ukraine,” wrote Franak Viachorka. Here, too, however, there was no independent confirmation of the alleged action.
Although Russian troops have invaded Ukraine from Belarus, authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is considered a protégé of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, has so far refused to allow his troops to be directly involved in the war in the neighboring country.
Source: Stern
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