Putin’s forces have stepped up attacks on Ukraine! Probably as retaliation for the sinking of the warship “Moskva”. There were airstrikes around the capital Kyiv and the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. A residential area was bombed in Kharkiv in the east of the country.
According to Ukrainian sources, ten people died, including a child. According to the authorities, 35 other people were injured. Seven other civilians were killed in Russian attacks on buses trying to take people out of the war zone to safer areas. According to initial information, 27 other people were injured in the incident in the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said on the online service Telegram.
In the Donetsk region, where “fighting is going on along the entire front line,” three people were killed and seven injured, Ukrainian officials said. There were 24 airstrikes in neighboring Luhansk, killing two and injuring two.
The Russian Defense Ministry had announced that “the number and scale of rocket attacks on targets in Kyiv” would increase in response to “terrorist attacks or acts of sabotage by the nationalist Kiev regime on Russian territory”.
Governor Olexander Pavljuk reported on Friday of three airstrikes in the region around the capital Kyiv – there were also numerous bombardments in the east of the country. Local media reports of explosions near Kyiv and Lviv and air raids in large parts of Ukraine.
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According to a reporter from the AFP news agency, a workshop and an administration building were destroyed in a rocket attack on an armaments complex near Kyiv. According to the website of the state-owned defense company Ukroboronprom, the factory near the international airport produces “Neptune” rockets.
Selenskyj quickly demands more weapons from the West
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (44) told CNN that between 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died in the war with Russia. Another 10,000 soldiers were injured.
In a video message, Zelenskyi reiterated his demand for more arms supplies from the West: “You can make the war much shorter. The quicker and in greater numbers we receive the weapons we have requested, the stronger our position will be and the quicker peace will come.”
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (43, FDP) had previously announced that the so-called training aid – an initiative to strengthen the security of foreign partners – would be increased to two billion euros in the supplementary budget. “The funds will largely benefit Ukraine,” he wrote on Twitter.
