Status: 08/01/2022 05:05
After heavy shelling in the southern Mykolaiv region, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy announced a reaction from his army. Russia has also transferred troops to occupied areas in southern Ukraine.
After serious bombings in southern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Selenksyj threatened Russia with consequences. In his video speech on Monday night, he also recounted the transfer of Russian troops to occupied southern areas that Kyiv is trying to recapture. According to Ukrainian sources, several Russian missiles landed in the Odessa region of the Black Sea on Sunday. Meanwhile, on the eve of the 159th day of the war, air strikes were launched across most of Ukraine.
“No Russian attack goes unanswered by our military and secret service agents,” Zelenskyy emphasized, referring to the Mykolaiv bombing. He also commemorated Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, owner of one of Ukraine’s largest grain trading companies, who was killed in the southern Ukrainian city.
Shaded in white: Russian army advance. Shaded in green: Russian-backed separatist areas. Crimea: annexed by Russia. Image: ISW/07/31/2022
Attack on Odessa
As the Ukrainian General Staff, Zelenskyy reported that Russian troops were being transferred to occupied areas in the south. Moscow has not commented on such possible moves.
In the course of the war of aggression that has lasted more than five months, Russia has occupied much of the southern Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia. Thanks to Western-supplied weapons, however, Ukraine has recently launched several successful counter-offensives at Kherson, according to its own statements and the assessment of the British secret service.
The Odessa city council, citing the southern command of the Ukrainian army, announced on Sunday that two Russian “Iskander” missiles had been shot down from the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia. No information was given about possible victims. Moscow initially did not comment on the allegations.