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Russia declares hundreds of strikes as it prepares for offensive in east Ukraine

Russia claims hundreds of strikes as it prepares for offensive in east Ukraine

MOSCOW: Russia pummeled Ukraine on Monday with one of the broadest barrages of missile attacks in weeks, claiming that it hit hundreds of targets in preparation for an anticipated eastern offensive. The attacks consisted of a strike on the western city of Lviv, where seven people were eliminated in the very first fatalities that city has suffered in the war.
Maksym Kozytskyy, the guv of Lviv which lies 60 km from the Polish border, said preliminary reports recommended there were four strikes, 3 on storage facilities that were not in usage by the military and another on a cars and truck service station. “It was a barbaric strike at a filling station, it’s a totally civilian center,” he told a press conference. Andriy Sadoviy, mayor of Lviv, said the youngest victim amongst the dead was aged 30. The blast also injured 11 and shattered windows of a hotel housing Ukrainians left from somewhere else in the country, he added. “Seven tranquil people had plans for life, however today their life stopped,” the mayor said.
The Russian defence ministry said it struck more than 300 military targets overnight, consisting of fuel depots, warehouses and other infrastructure generally in eastern Ukraine. It said air-launched rockets had actually destroyed 16 military facilities in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk areas and in the port of Mykolayiv, which are places in the south and east Ukraine. It included that the Russian flying force had actually launched strikes versus 108 locations where Ukrainian forces were concentrated and Russian artillery struck 315 Ukrainian military targets.
Ukraine’s militaries command likewise said it has observed indications that Russia is beginning an awaited new offensive in the east of the nation, increasing the strength of attacks in parts of the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. In a post on Facebook, the militaries command likewise said that Russia’s main military force was focusing on taking control of the entirety of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas. A push to seize more of the eastern area was getting under way after weeks of military problems, including Russia’s retreat from areas surrounding Kyiv and the sinking of a significant warship in the Black Sea. Having actually failed in the early weeks of the war to destroy the Ukrainian armed force’s network of fuel and ammo depots, Russia has intensified its attacks versus those facilities, along with transportation facilities. Russian forces have let loose further destruction on significant cities including Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, where six individuals were eliminated in attacks in residential locations on Sunday and Monday, officials said. Those attacks have bound Ukrainian forces and prevented them from joining the battle further east.
Published at Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:39:51 +0000

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