The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has promised this Sunday to avenge the missile attack perpetrated by the Russian army on Saturday night over Odessa. The bombing has caused two dead, 22 injured and the destruction of part of the historic center of the city, including its cathedraldeclared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
“Missiles against peaceful towns, against apartment buildings, against a cathedral… There will definitely be retaliation against Russian terrorists for what happened in Odesa”, the Ukrainian president has sentenced. For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has indicated in a Twitter message: “The Cathedral of the Transfiguration, located in the historic center of Odesa, protected by Unesco, was destroyed. A war crime that will never be forgotten or forgiven.”
The Ukrainian Air Force has acknowledged that “19 missiles of various types” (Onyx, Kalibr and Iskander) had been shot by “the enemy” during the night, nine of which would have been destroyed before colliding on Ukrainian soil. The rest did hit various urban areas of the city of Odesa. Among the wounded there are at least four children, according to government sources.
This missile attack has been added this Sunday by another one carried out by the Russian army with cluster bombs over the city of Chasiv Yar, in the region of Donetskin eastern Ukraine, which has destroyed the town’s Palace of Culture, currently used as a humanitarian and medical aid center.
Cluster bombs have caused the building fire, but they have not caused fatalities, according to the head of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, who confirmed that on Saturday four civilians have died and another 11 have suffered injuries in Russian bombardments launched on different parts of the region.
Damage
Regarding the attack on the city of Odessathe Ukrainian army has confirmed that the projectiles that were not intercepted by the anti-aircraft defense, also caused damage to the port infrastructure “and to at least six residences, including Apartment buildings, apart from causing momentary power cuts”. In view of the magnitude of the military aggression, the head of the presidential administration, Andrii Yermakhas asked the international community for “more systems of defense missiles and more tactical missiles & rdquor ;.
This attack follows those that the Russian army has been perpetrating between Thursday and Friday with type cruise missiles. Calibr fired from the sea, which hit the Odessa region. UNESCO has condemnedstrongly” the Russian attacks against “various museums” and historical buildings in the center of the Black Sea city.
The Russian army, for its part, assures that it only aims at military enclaves. This Sunday, Moscow military sources have claimed to have attacked “places where they were preparing terrorist acts against Russia through the use of naval drones”.
Ukrainian drones
The launch of Russian missiles comes a day after a ukrainian Drone Attack, who blew up an ammunition depot in the Crimea. The military operation led to the evacuation of the surrounding population and the suspension of the rail traffic on this peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
The death of a Russian journalist in a Ukrainian bombardment aroused the wrath of the Kremlin, which spoke of a “heinous crime” and promised a “response” to those responsible for this attack, although the Ukrainian army indicated that they had addressed “military installations & rdquor ;.
The Russian attacks on Odessa come shortly after Moscow announced that it had carried out military exercises with missile firing in the Black Seawhere tensions have increased since the end of the agreement for the export of cereals from Ukraine, qIt is crucial for world nutrition.
To the northeast of this zone, in front of Zaporozhyewhere the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is located, currently occupied by the Russians, the latter repelled “three attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of Rabotino”, as reported by the TASS news agency, citing the press officer of the Russian units ‘Vostok’, Oleg Chekhovwho has assured: “Tanks, infantry vehicles and men of the Ukrainian army have been destroyed.”
For its part, the Ukrainian army has stated that Moscow is concentrating most of its efforts on “impede progress” of his men. kyiv assures that Russia “it has failed & rdquor; in his attempt to “recapture a lost position south of Novodarivka, in the Zaporizhia region.” At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces they have continued their offensive “on the Melitopol and Berdyansk fronts, consolidating the positions reached”, according to military sources.
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The attack with Russian missiles has coincided in time with the meeting they have held Vladimir Putin and the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, a faithful ally of Moscow. The Russian president assured his counterpart that the counteroffensive launched by Ukraine to repel Russian forces had “failed”.
The two heads of state, who met for two days in St. Petersburgin northwestern Russia, were scheduled to discuss the “partnership and strategic alliance” between their countries. The figure of Alexander Lukashenko gained strength after his mediation work between the Kremlin and Yevgeny Prigozhin during the aborted rebellion of the Wagner paramilitary group.