The bloodbath in Ukraine is causing a shock with a tragic toll of at least 51 dead and dozens injured by Russia’s ballistic missile attack on the city of Poltava in the northeast of the country. The Ukrainians are talking about bloodshed, in an area where a hospital and a military training institution are located.
Waves of Russian drones at night
Russian armed forces have launched new airstrikes against the Ukrainian capital with unmanned aerial assault vehicles, Ukraine’s armed forces said on Telegram, citing two waves of drones so far overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
Dead in Lviv
Two people were killed and at least 19 injured in a Russian airstrike in Lviv, said the governor of the region.
The governor of Lviv, Maksim Kozytskyi, commented via Telegram that the night had “a lot of commotion”.
Buildings were damaged in the homonymous capital of the Lviv region, according to Mr. Kozytsky, who earlier spoke of many buildings, including apartment buildings, in flames and announced that some schools would not function today.
Polish and allied aircraft took off
In Poland, military jets from the eastern European country and its NATO allies scrambled to take off in the early hours of the morning — for the third time in eight days — to guarantee the safety of its airspace amid new Russian incursions, the operations command said. of the Polish Armed Forces.
It was “another busy night for the entire air defense system in Poland,” due to the “observed activity of the Russian Federation’s long-range aviation,” he explained via X.
Russian retaliation?
Russia has been pounding Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and drones for the past ten days, with some Russian bloggers talking about retaliation for the recent Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region, which resulted in the seizure of part of it.
Moscow has not officially commented at this stage on the raids that took place yesterday evening in Poltava and today in Lviv and Kiev.
All of Ukraine has been declared on alert for airstrikes since 04:00 (local and Greek time), the Air Force said via Telegram.
Joe Biden condemns
US President Joe Biden condemned on Tuesday (3/9) “in the strongest possible way” the “merciful” bombing of the Russian armed forces in the city of Poltava in central Ukraine yesterday, which resulted in the loss of at least 51 lives and wounding another 271, according to Kiev’s latest tally.
“This attack is a tragic reminder of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s ongoing and outrageous efforts to crush the will of a free people,” Mr. Biden said, according to a press release released by his White House staff. The US president assured that his administration “will continue” to support Ukraine, in particular by providing it with “air defense systems and the capabilities it needs” for its defense.
Sources: ERTNews, APE-MPE
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