Russian attacks leave one dead and more than 20 injured in Ukraine

It intensively bombarded several Ukrainian regions during the dawn of Saturday (30) and the attacks caused at least one death in the city of Zaporizehzia (Southeast), local authorities said. The commander of the Military Administration of the Zaporizehzia region, Ivan Fedorov, reported that a Russian air strike left at least one dead and 22 injured, including three children. “Russian attacks destroyed homes and damaged several facilities, including coffees, gas stations and industrial companies,” he added to the Telegram platform.

A little further north, the central province of Dnipropetrovsk was also attacked by Russia with missiles and drones, the governor said Sergii Lisak. “Infrastructures suffered damage to Dnipro and Pavlograd, which caused fires,” he said, citing two of the main cities in the region.

On Tuesday (26), the Ukrainian government recognized for the first time that Russian troops had entered Dnipropetrovsk-Moscow claims advances since July. The area is not among the five Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizehzia and Crimea – which publicly claims as part of its territory.

Farther from the Batalha Front, the province of Volynia, on the border with Poland, suffered “an attack on a large scale of enemy drones,” but no victims were recorded, according to the region’s military commander, Ivan Rudnitski.

In the Kiev region, the railway company announced delays motivated by the damage caused by the bombing. During the early hours of Thursday (28), the Ukrainian capital suffered air strikes that left 25 dead, including four children.

The bombings happen when diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, which already lasts three and a half years, are paralyzed, two weeks after the dome meeting between and in Alaska. Moscow’s army currently controls almost 20% of the Ukrainian territory.

*With information from AFP

Posted by Nicolas Robert