More than 300,000 people are without power in Odessa after the latest drone suicide attack
Russia carried out new raids into eastern Ukraine last Sunday, claiming it had succeeded in acquiring “more advantageous lines and positions” in the Lugansk region. A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 65 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fighting near several settlements in the region. In addition, in areas of the village of Chernovaya Dibrova, as well as in the Serebrianski forest, they allegedly destroyed “three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups and three mortar patrols of the Ukrainian armed forces” according to the same source.
The Russian military spokesman also reported that another 40 Ukrainian fighters had been killed in fighting towards Donetsk, while in Kupiansk artillery fire had killed more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers.
In the Kherson region, in the south of the invaded country, Russian bombings killed at least two other people and injured five, the governor said on Sunday. “The enemy again attacked the residential areas of Kherson,” Yaroslav Yanushevich stated in his Telegram account, where he also specified that the Russian army bombed a maternity hospital, a cafe and residential buildings.
For their part, pro-Russian authorities in the city of Melitopol, in the Zaporizhia region – one of the four cities annexed by Moscow – said at least two people were killed and a further 10 injured in a bombing targeting the Ukrainian army. armed forces was attributed.
In the meantime, a large part of the one and a half million people who were without power from Friday night to Saturday in the province of Odessa due to the latest Russian attack with ‘suicide drones’ had restored supplies on Sunday. However, according to the head of Odessa’s Ukrainian government, Maksim Marchenko, more than 300,000 residents in and around the city were still without power.
Local authorities acknowledged that the shelling had caused serious damage to critical electrical infrastructure and that it will take several days to restore power. Ukrainian President Volodímir Zelensky confirmed on Sunday that “the situation in Odessa is very difficult”.
On the diplomatic front, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this Sunday expressed his wish to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the war in Ukraine to “end as soon as possible”, in a telephone conversation where they discussed related matters involving energy and the agreement for the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.
Ukrainian forces this Sunday brought the number of Russian soldiers killed since the invasion began on February 24 to more than 94,000. However, a figure much higher than hitherto recognized by Moscow.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army indicated in a post on its Facebook account that “approximately 94,410” Russian soldiers have died since the outbreak of the war. In addition, he pointed out that 2,942 main battle tanks, 1,928 artillery systems, 211 anti-aircraft systems, 281 aircraft, 264 helicopters and 1,613 Russian drones have been destroyed. Likewise, 592 cruise missiles, 16 boats, 4,540 vehicles and fuel tanks, and 167 “special equipment” were destroyed.
A month ago, on November 10, the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, Mark Milley, stated that Russia had suffered “more than 100,000” casualties to that date, including dead and wounded soldiers, and acknowledged that the number of casualties among the Ukrainian ranks they were “probably similar”.
Source: La Verdad
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