Russia’s armed forces announced on Wednesday that they had inflicted heavy casualties on the Ukrainian army and were tightening the siege on Lisichansk.
Yesterday’s fighting remained concentrated in Donbas, but Russian missiles also hit several other parts of Ukraine with unusual intensity.
Kyiv has spoken of many blows against political infrastructure. This information cannot be independently verified.
According to Moscow, only 30 of the members of a Ukrainian unit with 350 soldiers survived a battle for an oil refinery in Lysitshansk, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Lugansk.
Russian forces also reportedly destroyed a “training center for foreign mercenaries” near Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine, as well as four command centers.
Earlier in the day, three people were killed and five others injured in a Russian missile strike in the city, according to Ukrainian local authorities.
Moscow also said 100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and a large amount of equipment destroyed in fighting near Pitomnik, in the Kharkiv region.
Despite these announcements from Moscow, there is no indication that the Russian army has made territorial gains.
After six Russian missile strikes in the city of Dnipro on Tuesday morning, rescue teams removed the bodies of a man and a woman from the rubble of a building that was hit, said Valentin Reznichenko, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk, via Telegraproprovsk.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian authorities reported that a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk had been bombed, killing 20 civilians. The West condemned the attack.
Russia said a missile fired by its forces caused a fire in the mall, but insisted that the target was a military facility where Western weapons and ammunition were stored.
The British Ministry of Defense said that it is possible that the Russian army did not aim at a political installation, commenting that the Russian missiles are not so accurate. However, via Twitter, he stressed that Russia seems to have decided that the war it is waging against Ukraine will cause collateral losses.
In Kherson, the pro-Russian military administration announced that it was preparing to hold a referendum in order for the region to become “fully” part of Russia.
The Ukrainian government has long been waiting for this development in Kherson, under Russian control since early March. Similar processes were organized to legitimize the occupation and annexation of Crimea in 2014 to the self-proclaimed Democratic Republics of Lugansk and Danieck.
According to information circulating on Tuesday, the mayor of Kherson, Ihor Kolikhaev, was arrested by the Russian army. His colleague spoke of “kidnapping”.
Despite the fierce hostilities, the armed forces of Ukraine and Russia exchanged almost 300 prisoners yesterday. According to the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv, among them were 95 fighters who were in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
While the focus was yesterday at the NATO summit in Madrid yesterday, Syria, an ally of Russia, made the unexpected announcement that it had officially recognized the self-proclaimed Democratic Republics of Lugansk and Danieck. It is only the second country to make this move.
Reacting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he was ending Kiev’s diplomatic relations with Damascus.
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