An attack in the western part of Ukraine was announced on Sunday morning. According to Lviv region governor Maxim Kozycki, rocket fire has hit military infrastructure in the Javoriv region near the Polish border.
“Four enemy missiles hit one of the military infrastructures, the building is completely destroyed,” said the governor of the Telegram network. “According to preliminary information, there are no victims. No one sought medical help, “he added. Reuters was unable to verify the reports independently.
The regional command of the Ukrainian Air Force stated that several missiles were fired at the Lviv region in the early morning hours from the Black Sea. Two missiles were allegedly destroyed before hitting the target.
Evacuation from Mariupol
The evacuees from Mariupol first headed to Berdańsk, eighty kilometers away, from there they continued northwest to Zaporizhia.
“There were a lot of older people among us. The journey was devastating. But it was worth it, “said Nikolai Pavlov, 74, after the convoy arrived in Zaporizhia. Sixty-three-year-old Iryna Petrenková again stated that she stayed in Mariupol even after the start of the fighting to take care of her mother. But she later died. “We buried her next to her house, there was nowhere else,” she said.
According to Mariupol’s mayor’s adviser, it was the largest one-off evacuation from the city since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24. Only the Azovstal steelworks complex in Mariupol remains in the hands of Ukrainian defenders.
Mariupol councilor Petro Andryuchenko wrote on Telegram on Sunday that Azovstal had been shelled by phosphorus bombs, but the information could not yet be verified from independent sources. “Hell came to Earth. To Azovstal, “wrote a local politician, who accompanied his statement with a video of a fiery rain over the steelworks. The use of phosphorus bombs, which ignite on contact with oxygen and cause considerable suffering and extensive damage, is prohibited.
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A “very difficult” situation in the Donbas
In his night video statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian forces were trying to achieve at least a partial victory in Ukraine and that the situation in Donbas in the east of the country remained “very difficult”.
“I am grateful to all those who hold the defense and strive to bring the situation not only in the Donbas, but also on the Azov coast and in Kherson closer to what is happening in the Kharkiv region,” Zelenskyj said. In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces are taking a counteroffensive, and according to Kharkov Mayor Ihor Terekhov, Russian troops have withdrawn from the city.
However, the Russian army is advancing in Donbas towards Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. It conquered the village of Oleksandropillja, from where the Ukrainian defenders retreated to the north.
Another alleged attack on Russian territory from Ukraine is also reported on Sunday. One person was injured when Ukrainian forces fired on a Russian village near the border, said Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the West Russian Belgorod region. The information could not be verified.
According to British military intelligence, it does not appear that Moscow will significantly accelerate the invasion process in the near future. “Under the current circumstances, Russia is unlikely to dramatically accelerate its progress within the next 30 days,” the British military correspondents said in an assessment of the war. According to them, the Russian offensive on Donbas has lost its strength and is significantly behind schedule.
In addition, the Kremlin has probably lost a third of the ground forces it engaged in in February. In the last month, the Russian army has failed to make significant territorial gains, and on the contrary, it is facing a high rate of wear and tear.
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