The Kremlin is stepping up its offensive in the east of the country, where the situation “is getting worse by the hour,” Ukraine’s foreign minister warned.
Three months after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, the fighting in Donbas has been raging, not only since February 24, when the war started, but also since 2014, since the fighting started by pro-Russian separatists. After eight years of ongoing attacks, to which are added the recent Kremlin army bombings, the situation in the east of the country is “extremely bad,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba warned in a speech on Wednesday. forum. The situation in Donbas, he stressed, “will get worse if Ukraine does not receive weapons as soon as possible”.
He devoted a few words to Western countries: “For anyone who thinks we have to make concessions to please Putin, my answer is simple. That does not work. There are times in history when there is no room for this kind of strategy,” he stressed, referring to World War II. “I can’t imagine the Allies meeting in 1942 saying that the situation at the front is difficult and that Hitler should be contacted to offer him an agreement and perhaps make some concessions.”
On the battlefield, Russian troops focus their attack on various Donbas areas, such as Lugansk. “The situation is very difficult and continues to deteriorate. It is getting worse every day, every hour,” said the governor of the region, Sergei Gaidai, who assured that “the bombings are getting more and more intense. The Russian army has decided to completely destroy Severodonetsk , it will be wiped off the face of the earth.”
This city, which had about 100,000 inhabitants before the war, has been under Russian pressure for weeks. Now the Kremlin troops have advanced and “they are close enough to fire mortars,” Gaidai lamented. The bombs also threatened the Azot factory, where civilians are seeking refuge. “Next week will be decisive,” he said.
As part of its maneuver, Moscow is trying to encircle the cities of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. The latter is of great strategic value as it would strengthen its control over the east after the capture of Mariúpol last week, and would succeed in establishing a land link from Donbas to Crimea.
The alarm went off again on Wednesday across almost the entire region. At least fourteen civilians were killed and fifteen others were injured in further airstrikes. “The invaders fired at 39 settlements in Donetsk and Lugansk and destroyed and damaged more than 60 civilian targets,” the Kiev armed forces said. Among them fifty residential buildings, a hospital, a train station, a shopping center, a department of the National Police or a power station.
In Sumy, the governor, Dimitro Zhivitskii, emphasized that Moscow “opened fire” against the Esmanskaya and Novoslobodskaya communities, although no casualties or injuries were reported. There were also “several explosions” in Zaporizhzhya.
For all these reasons, President Volodymyr Zelensky again asked the West for heavy weapons. “We have survived these three months thanks to the tens of thousands of exploits of all those who defend the state. And at the cost of tens of thousands of lives of men and women killed by the occupiers,” he said in his usual evening speech. The Ukrainian leader stressed that Russian troops “want to destroy everything” in Liman, Popasna, Severodonetsk and Sloviansk. “The supply of heavy weapons is the best investment to maintain stability in the world.”
Pablo González, the Spanish journalist arrested in Poland on Feb. 28 and charged with spying for Russia, will remain in prison for at least three more months after the Przemysl Regional Court agrees to extend his detention, his lawyer, Bartosz, reported. Rogasa. on Wednesday. Last week, the Polish prosecutor’s office asked the court to extend the detention of the reporter, who should have been released on the 29th of this month. The journalist’s defender announced that he would appeal the decision.
Source: La Verdad
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