Russia continues to move troops to deliver a final blow to the Donbas. New satellite images taken by the company Maxar show a Russian convoy about 12 kilometers long, crossing the border and heading to Kharkov, the main city in the east of the country.
According to Maxar, the photos show hundreds of “armored vehicles, trucks carrying artillery and support groups.” The pictures, dated April 8, show a convoy heading from the town of Welk in Burluk to Kharkov.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Sunday will be “tense” in the east of the country because “Russian troops will move there to continue their operations” and the Ukrainian government believes Russia is preparing for a final attack.
According to the head of Ukrainian intelligence, speaking to CNN, Russian troops regrouped on the border to advance towards Kharkov. Ukraine believes that the Russian army intends to break through Ukraine’s defensive lines by bypassing its troops and launching attacks from the Kharkiv region to the north, the port city of Mariupol to the south, and the Luhansk region to the east of the Donbas.
In addition, Russian artillery continues to attack the city of Severodonetsk, Lugansk, which is key to Russia’s advance. Kramatorsky And where the “vital infrastructure” is almost completely destroyed. The Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of Ukraine said in a statement that they saw that “it is likely that the enemy will continue to attack transport infrastructure facilities, such as the attack in Kramatorsk, to destroy or disable them” and thus “delay”. Delivery of goods. “In combat areas.
On April 8, two Russian rockets hit a Kramatorsk train station in the Donbas region, killing at least 57 people and injuring 109 of the nearly 4,000 civilians who had gathered there to flee the area.
To prevent a counterattack by Ukraine, Russian aircraft again this week bombed Dnipro airport, which was completely destroyed, as well as the surrounding infrastructure, according to authorities.
When the invasion of Ukraine began, a 40-million-strong convoy consisting of tanks, armored vehicles and trucks was set up outside Kiev. However, it ended up with problems in Ukraine and resistance and fuel supply and siege. Eventually this convoy disintegrated when Russia announced a change in military strategy and that they were leaving Kiev to focus on the conquest of the Donbas.
Change of military leadership and fear of more massacres of civilians
Ukraine has been urging civilians for several days to leave the region “as long as possible.” “It must be done now, because later people will be on fire and in danger of death. They can do nothing. (…) It is necessary to evacuate as long as this opportunity exists. “It’s still there at the moment,” said Irina Vereshchuk, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin reorganized its military leadership and appointed a new general to lead the war. This is Alexander Dvornikov, the commander who led the brutal attack in Syria in 2015.
The United States believes that with the appointment of a new general, it expects more “cruelty” and “cruelty” against the Ukrainian civilian population.
“This general, in particular, has a history that includes brutality against civilians in another environment, Syria, and we can expect more in that environment,” said Jake Sullivan, a national security adviser to US President Joe Biden.
Source: El Diario
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