Violent airstrikes against Ukrainian targets were also reported on Thursday. Air raid sirens were in effect throughout the country. The regional administration announced that two infrastructure objects were hit in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. 14 people were injured.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released an eyewitness video on Telegram that allegedly shows a missile hitting the streets of Dnipro. “Here is further proof of how badly the terrorists want peace,” the president said. According to media reports, Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal said the attack targeted a gas production operation and the Piwdenmash missile construction company.
Missiles intercepted over Kiev
Explosions of anti-aircraft guns were also heard over the capital Kiev. Four Russian cruise missiles were shot down as they approached the city, the city council announced after the end of the air raid. Five Iranian Shahed-136 combat drones were also intercepted, some over the reservoir north of the capital.
Vital infrastructure was hit in the eastern city of Izyum, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said. Shelling was also reported from the Black Sea port city of Odessa. At least four people were killed in a nightly bombing raid on the city of Vilnjansk in the Zaporizhia region. On Tuesday, Russia fired more than 90 missiles and cruise missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure. It was the largest such attack in nearly nine months of war.
EU military committee excludes no-fly zone
General Robert Brieger, chairman of the EU military committee, ruled out a flight ban in view of the mass attacks. “A no-fly zone should be protected with active means, ie fighter jets,” Brieger said in the “ZiB 2” on Wednesday evening. “Such a measure would mean the intervention, the active intervention of Western forces in the conflict and thus an extension, the effects of which, in my view, cannot be in the interest of any decision-maker.”
Brieger also reported that there was no military-level communication between Brussels and Moscow. The former Austrian chief of staff also reiterated US General Mark Milley’s assessment that Ukraine’s military victory was unlikely, but that there was a possibility for a political solution.
Source: Krone
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