After an operational hiatus to regroup its forces, Russia appears to have resumed its attacks in eastern Ukraine. Attempts by Russian storms toward Bakhmut and Donetsk have been thwarted in the past 24 hours, according to the general staff in Kiev. “After regrouping, the enemy has resumed the attack on the Wuhlehirsk thermal power plant and hostilities are ongoing,” the statement said.
Military experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have also noted that Russian troops are ending the respite they had after conquering the Sievarodonetsk/Lysychansk conurbation. At the moment it is still a matter of minor skirmishes. “If the operational hiatus is really over, the Russians will likely continue and intensify their attacks over the next 72 hours,” the ISW analysis says.
Air raid sirens across the country
Air raid sirens went out across the country on Friday night. Authorities say at least three people have been killed and 15 injured in the southeastern region of Dnipro. Videos and photos circulated on social networks that would show flying missiles and clouds of smoke in the southeastern city of Dnipro. The governor of the central Ukrainian region of Poltava, Dmytro Lunin, has confirmed the explosions in Kremenchuk. Odessa military governor Maxym Marchenko said another missile was launched over southern Ukrainian territory. Details about possible victims and vandalism were not yet known.
Zelenskyi: ‘Russia will remain crippled for generations’
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on citizens to be vigilant. At the same time, he warned Moscow that the war, which had been going on for almost five months, would not be without consequences in Russia too. Zelenskyj also sees that Russian society has been damaged for decades by the war against his country. Ukraine will preserve “humanity and civilization,” he said in his video address on Saturday night. Destroyed educational institutions would be rebuilt, he promised. “But Russian society with so many murderers and executioners will remain crippled for generations – and it’s their own fault.” In view of new attacks on various regions in the evening, Zelenskyy once again appealed to his compatriots not to ignore the air raid sirens.
According to Ukraine, it has received a new missile launcher system from the West. “No mercy for the enemy,” Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov wrote on Twitter. The M270 systems would keep the American HIMARS “good company on the battlefield”. It was not clear from the tweet whether only one or more of the M270 systems were delivered. Britain recently promised Ukraine such weapons. The M270 tracked systems can load twelve missiles instead of six, unlike the truck-mounted HIMARS.
Source: Krone
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