The Russian army on Saturday intensified the bombing in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, and is preparing “new actions“, according to the Ukrainian authorities, while Washington asks Beijing to condemn the invasion.
US asks China to condemn Russia for invasion
The United States, which is stepping up military aid to kyiv, has called on China to condemn “Russian aggression” in Ukraine, while the United Kingdom receives a first group of Ukrainian soldiers for training actions.
“The eyes of all the aggressive political movements and regimes in the world are on what Russia is doing to us,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media. Instagramwhen the US State Department again asked China to formally condemn the invasion of Ukraine.
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“Is the world capable of bringing true war criminals to justice?” asked Zelensky, warning of the risk of “hundreds more attacks” by Russian forces.
In the east, as in the south of the country, alarm sirens sounded throughout the night and residents of the small town of Druzhkivka, south of Kramatorsk (east), were woken up. by a missile attack which left a huge crater in front of a damaged supermarket.
Russian forces, which announced in early July that they had taken control of the Lugansk region, are now intensifying attacks in the Donetsk region, seeking to occupy the entire Donbass region, partially controlled since 2014 by Moscow-backed separatists. after the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
The Russian military claims to have inflicted significant damage in ukrainian team in the Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry also claimed responsibility for attacks in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, where six civilians were injured, according to the local Ukrainian prosecutor.
Governor of the Donetsk region Pavlo Kyrylenko confirmed that “the entire front line is under incessant bombardment“, having reported the death of five civilians in the last 24 hours.
Lugansk Governor Sergiy Gaidai said on Saturday that Russian forces are attacking the Donetsk region, from their bases in the Lugansk region, where “there is no full occupation” and that the Ukrainian resistance “is still fighting”.
The governors of Kharkiv and Donetsk accused Russian forces of setting fires, mainly in agricultural fieldswith the bombings, which are destroying the plantations.
In the south, police in the Kherson region announced the opening of a judicial process following the destruction of plantations by Russian forces.
In the Mykolaiv region, where part of the territory has been occupied by Russian forces since the first days of the war, authorities reported explosions overnight and urged people to stay in shelters.
Source: Observadora
